Charles Gildon

(1665 c.-1724)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gildon, Charles, 1665-1724 DNB: Gildon, Charles (c.1665–1724), writer LBT ID: ChGildo1724 VIAF ID: 50128721 LOC ID: n79055620	B/BAP: 1665 DIED: 1724-01-12
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English playwright and miscellaneous writer who attacked Alexander Pope and was consequently mauled in the Dunciad.
REFERENCES TO Charles Gildon: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 21 April 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XIII. 1807