William Congreve

(1670-1729)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Congreve, William, 1670-1729 NRA: Congreve, William (1670-1729) Dramatist DNB: Congreve, William (1670-1729), playwright and poet LBT ID: WiCongr1729 VIAF ID: 24616924 LOC ID: n79092555	B/BAP: 1670-01 DIED: 1729-01-19
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English comic dramatist; author of, among others, The Double Dealer (1694), Love for Love (1695), and The Way of the World (1700).
REFERENCES TO William Congreve: Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth [13 October 1804] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 26 February 1808 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 R. C. Dallas to Lord Byron, 7 February 1809 in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Verse 1: p. 43-3 Charles Lamb to Charles Chambers, [1 September 1817?] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 5 John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 11 January 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “On the Cockney School of Poetry. No. V” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5 (April 1819) 97-100 Found 1: ¶ 13 Lord Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 29 March 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 4 January 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [January 1823] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey, “Memoir: School Recollections,” 10 January 1823 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 8 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 116 First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 1: ¶ 103 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Quarterly Review 37 (March 1828) 402-26 Found 1: ¶ 60 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 52 Life of Byron: 1814 Found 1: ¶ 4 Life of Byron: 1819 Life of Byron: 1820 Found 1: ¶ 23 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 2: ¶ 8 ¶ 15 “Mr. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron” in The Times (30 January 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (8 January 1831) 23-25 Found 1: ¶ 22 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 159 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 3: ¶ 20 ¶ 22 ¶ 29 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 18 November 1838 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 12 December 1838 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 6 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. II” in New Monthly Magazine 79 (April 1847) 515-22 Found 1: ¶ 6 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. III” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (May 1847) 38-48 Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: X Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 11: Bulwer-Lytton Verse 2: p. 190b p. 190b Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward XV Horace & James Smith I Found 1: ¶ 13 R & T Sheridan IV Found 1: ¶ n1 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 9 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. V 1798 Found 1: ¶ 22 Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 12 Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 7 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. XII. 1799 Found 1: ¶ 2 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter III. 1807-1808. Found 1: ¶ 6 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXII. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Found 1: ¶ 5 Letters: 1804 Letters: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 14 Letters: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 10 Letters: 1825