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Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774


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  • Variants

    • Goldsmith, Doctor (Oliver), 1730?-1774
    • Goldsmith, Mr. (Oliver), 1730?-1774
    • Goldsmit, Oliver, 1730?-1774
    • Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728-1774
    • גולדסמיט, אוליביר

  • Additional Information

    • Birth Date

        1730?

    • Death Date

        1774

    • Birth Place

        Ireland

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Occupation

      Poets

      Novelists

      Playwrights

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  • Sources

    • found: She stoops to conquer, 1773:t.p. (Doctor Goldsmith)
    • found: The good natur'd man, 1768:t.p. (Mr. Goldsmith)
    • found: Encyc. Brit., 1984(Goldsmith, Oliver; Nov. 10, 1730 is date of birth now generally accepted; d. April 1774)
    • found: Oxford companion to English literature, 1985(Goldsmith, Oliver (?1730-74))
    • found: Encyc. Americana, 1982(Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774; b, Nov. 10, probably in 1730)
    • found: Goldsmith, interviews and recollections, 1993:p. xiv, chronological table (Oliver Goldsmith; b. Nov. 10, 1728; d. 1774)
    • found: Sheridan and Goldsmith, 1992:p. 13 (Goldsmith b. 1730)
    • found: Oliver Goldsmith revisited, c1991:p. ix, chronology (b. Nov. 10, 1731?) p. 1 (Goldsmith told a biographer that he had been born on 29 Nov. 1731, or perhaps it was 1730; his older sister said Nov. 10, 1729; references in Goldsmith's letters, together with alternative suggestions from other members of the family mean that every year from 1727 to 1731 has had its advocates)
    • found: Wikipedia, June 10, 2013(Oliver Goldsmith; born 10 November 1730 in either Ballymahon County or Elphin County Ireland; died 4 April 1774 in London; Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773))

  • LC Classification

    • PR3480-PR3498

  • Editorial Notes

    • [Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project.]
    • [Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.]

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  • Change Notes

    • 1980-06-09: new
    • 2023-09-09: revised

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