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Chronology of Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
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c.1730: |
born, son of an Irish clergyman |
1744: |
entered Trinity College, Dublin |
1747: |
ran away to Cork, perhaps with intention to sail to America |
1749: |
graduated with BA from TCD |
1752: |
to Edinburgh, Scotland, to study medicine |
1755-6: |
visited France, Switzerland, Italy |
1756: |
returned to London; was physician at Southwark |
1762: |
Citizen of the World ("Chinese Letters") published |
1764: |
The Traveller (poem); Lord Clare became his patron |
1766: |
The Vicar of Wakefield sold for him by Dr Johnson |
1768: |
Goodnatured Man produced at Covent Garden |
1769: |
History of Rome |
1770: |
lives of Thomas Parnell, Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke published |
1770: |
The Deserted Village |
1771: |
an English history published |
1773: |
She Stoops to Conquer at Covent Garden |
1774: |
The Retaliation; The History of Greece;
A history of the earth and animated nature |
1774: |
died |