biography
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| (1745–1831)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh University, became a crown attorney in the Scottish Court of Exchequer (1765), and in 1804 was made comptroller of taxes. His sentimental novel The Man of Feeling, which was published in 1771, secured his standing in Scottish literary circles, and was followed by more than 100 other novels, plays, and biographies, notably on Burns. His memoirs and anecdotes were published as Anecdotes and Egotisms (1927). |
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