Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) Irish novelist, playwright and poet, best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield
Illustration after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792) from the cabinet of Irish literature published in 1903. Info from wiki: Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an 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). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).
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