NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Beckford, William, 1760-1844 NRA: Beckford, William (1760-1844) Author MP Art Collector DNB: Beckford, William Thomas (1760-1844), writer and art collector LBT ID: WiBeckf1844 VIAF ID: 4926466 LOC ID: n78095665 | B/BAP: 1760-09-29 DIED: 1844-05-02 |
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English novelist and aesthete, son of the Jamaica planter and Lord Mayor William Beckford
(1709-1770), author of Vathek: An Arabian Tale, surreptitiously
translated and published in 1786. He was MP for Wells (1784-90) and Hindon (1790-94,
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REFERENCES TO WORKS BY William Thomas Beckford:
Biographical Memoirs of extraordinary Painters: exhibiting not only Sketches
of their principal Works and professional Characters; but a variety of romantic Adventures
and original Anecdotes. Found 1.
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Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents: in a Series of Letters, from various
parts of Europe. Found 1.
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Italy: with Sketches of Spain and Portugal. Found 3.
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Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and
Batalha. Found 1.
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An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript: with Notes critical and
explanatory [Vathek]. Found 31.
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