LORD BYRON and his TIMES
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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749-1814 NRA: Pratt Samuel Jackson (1749-1814) Miscellaneous Writer DNB: Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814), writer and actor LBT ID: SaPratt1814 VIAF ID: 68979200 LOC ID: n83041813 | B/BAP: 1749-12-25 DIED: 1814-10-04 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
English miscellaneous writer who abandoned a clerical career to become an actor and
voluminous writer of sentimental literature; regarded as a charlatan by many who knew him,
Pratt acquired a degree of respectability in his latter years. He patronized the poetical
shoemaker-poet Joseph Blacket. | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Samuel Jackson Pratt [Courtney Melmoth]:
Emma Corbett or, the Miseries of Civil War. Founded on some recent
Circumstances which happened in America. Found 1.
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Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, with Views of Peace and War
at home and abroad. Found 2.
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The Triumph of Benevolence occasioned by the National Design of erecting a
Monument to John Howard, Esq.. Found 2.
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