"The Vicar of Wakefield The Vicar of Wakefield – subtitled A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself – is a novel by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774). It was written from 1761 to 1762 and published in 1766. It was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians. Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of Goldsmith's closest friends, told how ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" came to be sold for publication: The novel was ""The Vicar of Wakefield"", and Johnson had sold it to Francis Newbery, a nephew of John. Newbery ""kept it by him for nearly two"
"be a Broadway production but they [do] know it's the best picture thing of its kind that has been released this far in the game."" The advertisement also claims to be the first film adaptation of the play, which according to ""The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film"" it is. ""She Stoops to Conquer"" would see numerous adaptations over the following decades, but the Thanhouser Company would also draw from Goldsmith's work with their first adaptation of ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" in 1910. The film director is unknown, but it may have been Barry O'Neil. Film historian Q. David"
"Henry Wakefield (bishop of Birmingham) Henry Russell Wakefield (1 December 1854 – 9 January 1933) was an Anglican Bishop and author in the first quarter of the 20th century. Born on 1 December 1854 he was educated at Tonbridge School and the University of Bonn. Ordained in 1877 after a period at Ripon College Cuddesdon, following two London curacies he was Incumbent at several parishes before senior posts as Prebendary of St Paul’s Cathedral, Dean of Norwich and finally Bishop of Birmingham. He was also a member of the London School Board representing the Marylebone Division from 1897-1900 and Mayor"
"and he also wrote ""An Ancient English Morris Dance with Variations"". Sarah West (actress) Sarah West (1790–1876) was a British actress. She was born Sarah Cooke in Bath, Somerset on 22 March 1790, daughter of Mr. Cooke of Bath. Influenced by her cousin Harriet Waylett, she appeared at the Theatre Royal, Bath on 22 May 1810 for the benefit of her uncle, an actor, playing Miss Hardcastle in ""She Stoops to Conquer"", and in 1811, at the same house, played Emily Tempest in ""The Wheel of Fortune"". In the summer of 1812, she played at Cheltenham and Gloucester. Recommended by"
"in or out of sympathy with each other. Very late in the 17th century Oliver Goldsmith attempted to resist the tide of sentimental comedy with ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1773), and Richard Brinsley Sheridan would mount several satirical plays after Walpole's death. Both of these playwrights were taking advantage of a loosening of the censorship and popular weariness with ""refined"" comedy. Goldsmith's play reintroduces the country bumpkin character who outwits the sophisticated would-be rakes who are engaged in a plot to marry well. Sheridan, on the other hand, very consciously turned back to the Restoration comedy for his models but"
"of authority in both England and Ireland at different times. Many of Swift's works reflected support for Ireland during times of political turmoil with England, including ""Proposal for Universal Use of Irish Manufacture"" (1720), ""Drapier's Letters"" (1724), and ""A Modest Proposal"" (1729), and earned him the status of an Irish patriot. Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), born in County Longford, moved to London, where he became part of the literary establishment, though his poetry reflects his youth in Ireland. He is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The"
"Lionel Brough Lionel Brough (10 March 1836 – 9 November 1909) was a British actor and comedian. After beginning a journalistic career and performing as an amateur, he became a professional actor, performing mostly in Liverpool during the mid-1860s. He established his career in London as a member of the company at the new Queen's Theatre, Long Acre in 1867, and he soon became known for his roles in Shakespeare, contemporary comedies, and classics, especially as Tony Lumpkin in ""She Stoops to Conquer"". In the 1870s and 1880s, Brough was one of the leading comic actors in London. Although untrained"
"Gilbert Wakefield Gilbert Wakefield (22 November 1756, Nottingham – 9 September 1801, Hackney) was an English scholar and controversialist. Wakefield was the third son of the Rev. George Wakefield, then rector of St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham but afterwards at Kingston-upon-Thames. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. as second wrangler in 1776. Wakefield took orders, but left the ministry and the Church of England to become a Unitarian. He earned his living as a classical tutor in various Dissenting academies, including the famous one at Warrington. Wakefield was a controversial writer, and both he and his"
"The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by the Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith. His works include: Veeresalingam was inspired by the principles of Brahmo Samaj leaders like Raja Rammohan Roy, Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, & Maharshi Keshab Chandra Sen. He started his own Brahmo Mandir in Rajahmundry near bridge in 1887. One of the greatest reforms of Veeresalingam was to promote women's education, which was considered to be a taboo in those days. In 1876, he started a journal called ""Viveka Vardhini"" and published articles about women's issues of that era. The magazine was initially printed at Chennai (then Madras), but"
"as appears in this film, nor lived in such a house as Mr. Hardcastle. The final tableau is as artificial as set pieces which have gone out of style at funerals. With all of its imperfections there is considerable of virile comedy in the film."" Though the ""Mirror"" reviewer stated that despite the elimination of the Hastings and Constance Neville subplot, the acting is clear enough that audiences do not need prior knowledge of the play to appreciate the film. She Stoops to Conquer (1910 film) She Stoops to Conquer is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the"
"me than all my other publications put together"". A revised edition followed in 1795. Wakefield also published editions of various classical writers, and among his theological writings are ""Early Christian Writers on the Person of Christ"" (1784), ""Silva Critica"" (1789–95), illustrations of the Scriptures, and ""An Examination of Paine's Age of Reason"" in (1794). Gilbert Wakefield Gilbert Wakefield (22 November 1756, Nottingham – 9 September 1801, Hackney) was an English scholar and controversialist. Wakefield was the third son of the Rev. George Wakefield, then rector of St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham but afterwards at Kingston-upon-Thames. He was educated at Jesus College,"
"the morning."" Lionel Brough Lionel Brough (10 March 1836 – 9 November 1909) was a British actor and comedian. After beginning a journalistic career and performing as an amateur, he became a professional actor, performing mostly in Liverpool during the mid-1860s. He established his career in London as a member of the company at the new Queen's Theatre, Long Acre in 1867, and he soon became known for his roles in Shakespeare, contemporary comedies, and classics, especially as Tony Lumpkin in ""She Stoops to Conquer"". In the 1870s and 1880s, Brough was one of the leading comic actors in London."
"were praised, his political adaptations of well-known works met with much criticism. Neither Steele nor Colley, or any other writer, made a career of writing sentimental comedies as the genre was popular for only a short time. In fact, all of the authors of sentimental comedy at this time wrote other forms, including restoration comedy and tragedy. Sentimental comedies continued to coexist with more conventional laughing comedies such as Oliver Goldsmith's ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1773) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan's ""The Rivals"" (1775) until the sentimental genre waned in the early 19th century. Sentimental comedy was a reaction to the"
"so any play that passed the licensers was regarded with suspicion by the public. Therefore, the playhouses had little choice but to present old plays and pantomime and other plays that had no conceivable political content. In other words, William Shakespeare's reputation grew enormously, as his plays saw a quadrupling of performances, and sentimental comedy and melodrama were the only choices. Very late in the 18th century Oliver Goldsmith attempted to resist the tide of sentimental comedy with ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1773), and Richard Brinsley Sheridan would mount several satirical plays after Robert Walpole's death. Augustan literature Augustan literature"
"of St Marylebone in 1903-1905. He was described in his ""Times"" obituary as a ""layman's bishop."" Between 1908–14, he was the sole Church of England representative on the Executive Committee of the National Service League. Henry Wakefield (bishop of Birmingham) Henry Russell Wakefield (1 December 1854 – 9 January 1933) was an Anglican Bishop and author in the first quarter of the 20th century. Born on 1 December 1854 he was educated at Tonbridge School and the University of Bonn. Ordained in 1877 after a period at Ripon College Cuddesdon, following two London curacies he was Incumbent at several parishes"
"Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield Charles Cheers Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield, GCVO, CBE (12 December 1859 – 15 January 1941), was an English businessman who founded the Castrol lubricants company, was lord mayor of London and was a significant philanthropist. Wakefield was born in Cheshire, the son of John Wakefield, and his wife Margaret, née Cheers, and was educated at the Liverpool Institute. Wakefield patented the Wakefield lubricator for steam engines in the 1890s. In 1899 he founded the Wakefield Oil Company, but subsequently changed its name to Castrol. The name Castrol was chosen because of the castor oil that"
"Souvestre, Stendhal, Mary Elizabeth Mohl, Barthélemy St Hilaire, Lamartine, and Maria Edgeworth. She amassed a significant correspondence over her life, though much was damaged or destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War. Some of her most notable literary translations include Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", Elizabeth Gaskell's ""Cranford"", four works by Dickens (who was also a personal friend), Oliver Goldsmith's ""The Vicar of Wakefield"", the works of Walter Scott, Thomas Moore's ""Irish Melodies"", the memoirs of Byron, and a great number of Edgeworth's works. She herself authored over forty books, including a life of Byron that was published with an introduction by Stendhal,"
"from the tenth to the sixteenth century. Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London (c 1500 - 1569) stopped this in 1542. The most famous plays of the Towneley collection are attributed to the Wakefield Master, an anonymous playwright who wrote in the fifteenth century. The epithet ""Wakefield Master"" was first applied to this individual by the literary historian Gayley. The Wakefield Master gets his name from the geographic location where he lived, the market-town of Wakefield in Yorkshire. He may have been a highly educated cleric there, or possibly a friar from a nearby monastery at Woodkirk, four miles north of"
"engaged. Tony discovers his mother has lied about his being ""of age"" and thus entitled to his inheritance. He refuses to marry Constance, who is then eligible to receive her jewels and become engaged to Hastings, which she does. The original production opened in London at Covent Garden Theatre on 15 March 1773 and was an immediate success. Lionel Brough is supposed to have played Tony Lumpkin 777 times. Lillie Langtry had her first big success in this play in 1881. Perhaps one of the most famous modern incarnations of ""She Stoops to Conquer"" was Peter Hall's version, staged in"
"in the 19th century, and raised to cathedral status in 1888. The first Bishop of Wakefield was William Walsham How. In 1356 the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin on Wakefield bridge was built originally in wood, and later in stone. This chapel is one of four chantry chapels built around Wakefield and the oldest and most ornate of the four surviving in England. Wakefield is also known for the Wakefield Cycle, a collection of 32 mystery plays, dating from the 14th century, which were performed as part of the summertime religious festival of Corpus Christi and revived in"
"Sarah West (actress) Sarah West (1790–1876) was a British actress. She was born Sarah Cooke in Bath, Somerset on 22 March 1790, daughter of Mr. Cooke of Bath. Influenced by her cousin Harriet Waylett, she appeared at the Theatre Royal, Bath on 22 May 1810 for the benefit of her uncle, an actor, playing Miss Hardcastle in ""She Stoops to Conquer"", and in 1811, at the same house, played Emily Tempest in ""The Wheel of Fortune"". In the summer of 1812, she played at Cheltenham and Gloucester. Recommended by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kemble, she made, as Miss Cooke, her"
"H. Russell Wakefield Herbert Russell Wakefield (1888–1964) was an English short-story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories. Wakefield was the third of four children of the clergyman Henry Russell Wakefield, who would become bishop of Birmingham in 1911. Born in Kent, he was educated at Marlborough College before attending University College, Oxford, where he took second-class honours in modern history and played first-class cricket, golf, hockey and football. From 1912 to 1914 he was secretary to Viscount Northcliffe; he then served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in France and the Balkans during World"
"aid on video tape by thousands of U.S. students. The type of comedy which ""She Stoops to Conquer"" represents has been much disputed but there is consensus amongst audiences and critics that the play is a comedy of manners (see below for details). It can also be seen as one of the following comedy types: When the play was first produced, it was discussed as an example of the revival of laughing comedy over the sentimental comedy seen as dominant on the English stage since the success of ""The Conscious Lovers"", written by Sir Richard Steele in 1722. In the"
"Richardson's ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (1740), Oliver Goldsmith's ""Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), Laurence Sterne's ""Tristram Shandy"" (1759–67), and Henry Mackenzie's ""The Man of Feeling"" (1771). Significant foreign influences were the Germans Goethe, Schiller and August Wilhelm Schlegel and French philosopher and writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778). Edmund Burke's ""A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"" (1757) is another important influence. The changing landscape, brought about by the industrial and agricultural revolutions, was another influence on the growth of the Romantic movement in Britain. In the late 18th century, Horace Walpole's 1764 novel ""The Castle"
"18th century, with gothic fiction, that began in 1746 with English author Horace Walpole's ""The Castle of Otranto"", subtitled (in its second edition) ""A Gothic Story"". Other important works are Ann Radcliffe's ""The Mysteries of Udolpho"" (1794) and 'Monk' Lewis's ""The Monk"" (1795). The new romances challenged the idea that the novel involved a realistic depictions of life, and destabilized the difference the critics had been trying to establish, between serious classical art and popular fiction. Gothic romances exploited the grotesque, and some critics thought that their subject matter deserved less credit than the worst medieval tales of Arthurian knighthood."
"is mirrored in other novels that were more highly popularised in the beginning of the 19th century. Jane Austen's novels are perhaps the most recognisable works in the genre. Because of Austen's works, the novel of manners is mostly associated with the early 19th century. The rise in the importance of social behaviour had not gone unnoticed by one Horace Walpole, the widely credited inventor of Gothic fiction. Walpole's knowledge of Chesterfield and the importance of manners perhaps influenced not only his work but carried over into other authors' novels dubbed ""Gothic"" as well. Walpole wrote what is generally accepted"
"""She Stoops to Conquer"", and two long poems, ""The Traveller"" and ""The Deserted Village"". The last of these may be the first and best poem by an Irish poet in the English pastoral tradition. It has been variously interpreted as a lament for the death of Irish village life under British rule and a protest at the effects of agricultural reform on the English rural landscape. Local cultural differences in areas such as north and east Ulster produced minor, and often only loosely associated, vernacular movements that do not readily fit into the categories of Irish or English literature. For"
"a practical philanthropist. He was a strong advocate of the educational theories of Joseph Lancaster, and was on terms of intimacy with James Mill and Francis Place. Wakefield is best known as the author of ""Ireland, Statistical and Political,"" published in 1812, a work which, in spite of many inaccuracies, is, from the candour and tolerance it displays, a very valuable account of Ireland in the early years of the nineteenth century. The book was undertaken in 1808 at the suggestion of John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, formerly chancellor of the Irish exchequer, and Wakefield devoted four years to the"
"Sullivan's ""Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood"" (1978). Appraisals can be found in ""Supernatural Fiction Writers"" (Scribners, 1985), the ""St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers"" (St. James Press, 1998), and ""Supernatural Literature of the World"" (Greenwood Press, 2005). H. Russell Wakefield Herbert Russell Wakefield (1888–1964) was an English short-story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories. Wakefield was the third of four children of the clergyman Henry Russell Wakefield, who would become bishop of Birmingham in 1911. Born in Kent, he was educated at Marlborough College"
"Humphry Wakefield Sir Edward Humphry Tyrrell Wakefield, 2nd Baronet FRGS, (born 11 July 1936) is an English baronet and expert on antiques and architecture. Wakefield has made his career a study of antique furniture and historic restoration. He worked for Christie's of London, and subsequently became director and chairman of antique-dealing firms. In 1982 he bought Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, from the Grey family, of Northumberland, the family of his third wife Catherine, daughter of Lady Mary Grey. He has since restored the ruined castle to a habitable state to house his wide collection of antiquities, from his own collection and"
"Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), author of the epistolary novels ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (1740) and ""Clarissa"" (1747–48); Henry Fielding (1707–1754), who wrote ""Joseph Andrews"" (1742) and ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"" (1749); Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), who published ""Tristram Shandy"" in parts between 1759 and 1767; Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), author of ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766); Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751) and ""The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"" (1771), who influenced Charles Dickens; and Fanny Burney (1752–1840), whose novels ""were enjoyed and admired by Jane"
"club. Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield Charles Cheers Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield, GCVO, CBE (12 December 1859 – 15 January 1941), was an English businessman who founded the Castrol lubricants company, was lord mayor of London and was a significant philanthropist. Wakefield was born in Cheshire, the son of John Wakefield, and his wife Margaret, née Cheers, and was educated at the Liverpool Institute. Wakefield patented the Wakefield lubricator for steam engines in the 1890s. In 1899 he founded the Wakefield Oil Company, but subsequently changed its name to Castrol. The name Castrol was chosen because of the castor oil"
"""The Vicar of Wakefield"" by Oliver Goldsmith, parts of which Stendhal had memorized in the course of teaching himself English. In ""The Vicar"", ""the happy few"" read the title character's obscure and pedantic treatise on monogamy--alone. In two volumes, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century tells the story of Julien Sorel's life in France's rigid social structure restored after the disruptions of the French Revolution and the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. Julien Sorel, the ambitious son of a carpenter in the fictional village of Verrières (""more truthful"" in French), in Franche-Comté, France, would rather read"