George Lillo

(1693-1739)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lillo, George, 1693-1739 DNB: Lillo, George (1691/1693-1739), playwright LBT ID: GeLillo1739 VIAF ID: 36964036 LOC ID: n79081916	B/BAP: 1693 DIED: 1739-09-03
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English playwright whose tragedy The London Merchant (1731) was performed regularly as a warning to wayward apprentices.
REFERENCES TO George Lillo: Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) On the drama; on superstition Found 1: ¶ 11 Galt, John, 1779-1839, “Lord Byron’s Conversations” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 530-40 Found 1: ¶ 15 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 5