biography
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| (1728–74)
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| biography:
| Playwright, novelist, and poet, born in Kildare, E Ireland. He studied erratically at Dublin, tried law at London then medicine at Edinburgh, drifted to Leyden, and returned penniless in 1756. He practised as a physician in London, held several temporary posts, and took up writing and translating. The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) secured his reputation as a novelist, ‘The Deserted Village’ (1770) as a poet, and She Stoops to Conquer (1773) as a dramatist. |
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