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 |
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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 Samuel Jackson Pratt [Courtney Melmoth]: Sydney Owenson to Alicia Le Fanu, 6 January 1806 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
¶ 2 Sir Richard Phillips to Sydney Owenson, 29 September 1806 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
¶ 7 Lord Byron to John Becher, 28 March 1808 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1:
¶ 2 R. C. Dallas to Lord Byron, 24 January 1809 in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Found 1:
¶ 5 R. C. Dallas to Lord Byron, 17 April 1809 in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Found 1:
¶ 2 Lord Byron to R. C. Dallas, 28 June 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1:
¶ 4 Lord Byron to R. C. Dallas, 21 August 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Lord Byron to R. C. Dallas, 25 August 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1:
¶ 2 R. C. Dallas to Lord Byron, [5 September 1811] in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Found 1:
¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1811 Found 1:
¶ n1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1:
¶ 50 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 IX Found 1:
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