"Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale ""The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes"" (1765). Goldsmith's birth date and year are not known with certainty. According to the Library of Congress authority file, he told a biographer that he was born on 10 November"
"its list of Persons of National Historic Significance. Oliver Goldsmith (Canadian poet) Oliver Goldsmith (1794–1861) was a Canadian poet born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. He is best known for ""The Rising Village"", which appeared in 1825. It was at once the first book-length poem published by a native English-Canadian and the first book-length publication in England by a Canadian poet. Furthermore, his ""Autobiography"" is the first autobiography of a native Canadian writer. He is not to be confused with his great-uncle Oliver Goldsmith, to whose celebrated poem ""The Deserted Village"" ""The Rising Village"" is a response. In 1944 his"
"Oliver Goldsmith (Canadian poet) Oliver Goldsmith (1794–1861) was a Canadian poet born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. He is best known for ""The Rising Village"", which appeared in 1825. It was at once the first book-length poem published by a native English-Canadian and the first book-length publication in England by a Canadian poet. Furthermore, his ""Autobiography"" is the first autobiography of a native Canadian writer. He is not to be confused with his great-uncle Oliver Goldsmith, to whose celebrated poem ""The Deserted Village"" ""The Rising Village"" is a response. In 1944 his name was added by the Canadian Government to"
"Olivia Goldsmith Olivia Goldsmith (January 1, 1949 – January 15, 2004) was an American author, best known for her first novel ""The First Wives Club"" (1992), which was adapted into the movie ""The First Wives Club"" (1996). She was born Randy Goldfield and grew up in Dumont, New Jersey, but changed her name to Justine Goldfield and later to Justine Rendal. She took up writing following a divorce in which she said her husband got almost everything (including her Jaguar and the country house). A graduate of New York University, she was a partner at the management consultants Booz Allen"
"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"
"in 1726 published the first great work by an Anglo-Irish writer, ""Gulliver's Travels"". Though this had no specifically Irish relevance, it set a standard for later writers in English. The eighteenth century saw the birth in Ireland of two distinguished novelists, Laurence Sterne (1713 – 1768) and Oliver Goldsmith (1728 – 1774), both of whom, however, made their careers in England. Despite this, their oeuvre is often included in the Anglo-Irish literary canon. Sterne published ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"" (1759–1767), a satire on the biographical novel. Goldsmith, best known as a poet, published ""The Vicar of"
"considerable talent. Technically close to his English contemporaries Pope and Dryden, Swift's poetry evinces the same tone of savage satire, and horror of the human body and its functions that characterises much of his prose. Swift also published translations of poems from the Irish. Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) started his literary career as a hack writer in London, writing on any subject that would pay enough to keep his creditors at bay. He came to belong to the circle of Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and Sir Joshua Reynolds. His reputation depends mainly on a novel, ""The Vicar of Wakefield"", a play,"
"Andrea Goldsmith Andrea Goldsmith (born 24 March 1950) is an Australian writer and novelist. Goldsmith was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to an Australian-Jewish family. She started learning the piano as a young child, and music remains an abiding passion. She initially trained as a speech pathologist and worked for several years with children suffering from severe communication impairment until becoming a full-time writer in the late 1980s. During the 1990s she taught creative writing at Deakin University, and she continues to conduct workshops and mentor new novelists. She travels widely, and London, in particular, figures prominently in her novels. At"
"1728. The location of his birthplace is also uncertain. He was born either in the townland of Pallas, near Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland, where his father was the Anglican curate of the parish of Forgney, or at the residence of his maternal grandparents, at the Smith Hill House near Elphin in County Roscommon, where his grandfather Oliver Jones was a clergyman and master of the Elphin diocesan school, and where Oliver studied. When Goldsmith was two years old, his father was appointed the rector of the parish of ""Kilkenny West"" in County Westmeath. The family moved to the parsonage at"
"Goldsmiths Prize . Olivia Laing Olivia Laing, (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. Olivia Laing grew up in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire. She spent her childhood in the south of England and took up a place to study English at Sussex University but dropped out to become a road protester and briefly live wild in the Sussex countryside. In 2003, Laing obtained a BSc Hons degree in herbal medicine and practised for several years as a medical herbalist before becoming a journalist. Between 2007 and 2009 Laing was Deputy Books Editor of ""The Observer""."
"century saw the emergence of two major Irish dramatists, Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who were two of the most successful playwrights on the London stage in the 18th century. Goldsmith (1728–1774) was born in Roscommon and grew up in extremely rural surroundings. He entered Trinity College in 1745 and graduated in 1749. He returned to the family home, and in 1751, began to travel, finally settling in London in 1756, where he published poetry, prose and two plays, ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" 1768 and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" 1773. This latter was a huge success and is still regularly"
"• ""Tallgrass"" • ""Runestone"" • ""The Long Journey Home"" • ""Horsin’ Around"" • ""Horsin’ Around Again"" • ""Still Horsin’ Around"" Don Coldsmith Don Coldsmith (February 28, 1926 – June 25, 2009) was an American author of primarily Western fiction. A past president of Western Writers of America, Coldsmith wrote more than 40 books, as well as hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. His ""Spanish Bit Saga"", a series of related novels, helped to re-define the Western novel by adopting the point of view of the Native Americans, rather than the European immigrants. In addition to his career as a writer,"
"Margaret L. Goldsmith Margaret Leland Goldsmith (1894–1971) was an American journalist, historical novelist and translator who lived and worked primarily in England. She translated Erich Kästner's ""Emil and the Detectives"" for the first UK edition. Goldsmith spent some of her childhood in Germany, where she attended school and learned to speak German fluently. She then studied at Illinois Woman's College in Jacksonville, Illinois and gained an MA from the University of Illinois. During World War I she was on the staff of the war trade board under Bernard Baruch. She then worked for the national chamber of commerce in Washington"
"The Deserted Village The Deserted Village is a poem by Oliver Goldsmith published in 1770. It is a work of social commentary, and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth. The location of the poem's deserted village is unknown, but the description may have been influenced by Goldsmith's memory of his childhood in rural Ireland, and his travels around England. The poem is written in heroic couplets, and describes the decline of a village and the emigration of many of its residents to America. In the poem, Goldsmith criticises rural depopulation, the moral corruption found in towns, consumerism,"
"Edward Goldsmith Edward René David Goldsmith (8 November 1928 – 21 August 2009), widely known as Teddy Goldsmith, was an Anglo-French environmentalist, writer and philosopher. He was a member the prominent Goldsmith family. The eldest son of Major Frank Goldsmith, and elder brother of the financier James Goldsmith. Edward Goldsmith was the founding editor and publisher of ""The Ecologist"". Known for his outspoken views opposing industrial society and economic development, he expressed a strong sympathy for the ways and values of traditional peoples. He co-authored the influential ""A Blueprint for Survival"" with Robert Allen, becoming a founding member of the"
"Ulrich K. Goldsmith Ulrich K. Goldsmith (1910–2000) was an American scholar of literature and emeritus professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ulrich K. Goldsmith was born in 1910 in Freiburg (Black Forest) and had to leave Germany in 1932-1933 because of his Jewish origins and Nazi persecution. He came to the United States via England and Canada and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950, with a dissertation on Stefan George. He was appointed professor of Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1957 where he died emeritus"
"Livelihood Award and the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. Goldsmith (widely known as Teddy) was born in Paris in 1928 to a German Jewish father, Frank Goldsmith, and French mother, Marcelle Mouiller. He entered Millfield School, Somerset, as a grammar student, and he later graduated with honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford (1947–1950). While studying at Oxford, Goldsmith rejected the reductionist and compartmentalised ideas taught at the time, and he sought a more holistic worldview with which to study societies and the problems facing the world at large. After fulfilling his National Service as a British"
"Art's first poet laureate. Born in Freeport, New York, he was trained as a sculptor at the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated with a BFA in 1984. Goldsmith worked for many years within the art world as a text-based artist and sculptor before becoming a writer. Motivated by his own 2007 manifesto ""Uncreative Writing"" and notion that ""any language can be poetry"", Goldsmith has been the editor of one continuous project of innovative poetics, comprising both the study and practice of conceptual poetry as a writer, academic, and the curator of the archives at UbuWeb. In his own"
"Sessions"", also co-written & produced by Goldsmith. In the early 2000s Goldsmith began his professional photography career and has volunteered his time to photograph images for PETA. Brett Goldsmith Brett Hugh Goldsmith (born 4 June 1961) is an Australian-born songwriter, music programmer/producer and photographer. Goldsmith is the son of British-born actress Rona Newton-John and Melbourne nightclub owner Brian Goldsmith. His grandfather was University of Melbourne professor Brinley (""Bryn"") Newton-John. His great-grandfather was German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born. Olivia Newton-John is his aunt, singer/actress Tottie Goldsmith is his younger sister and race car driver Emerson Newton-John his younger"
"Don Coldsmith Don Coldsmith (February 28, 1926 – June 25, 2009) was an American author of primarily Western fiction. A past president of Western Writers of America, Coldsmith wrote more than 40 books, as well as hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. His ""Spanish Bit Saga"", a series of related novels, helped to re-define the Western novel by adopting the point of view of the Native Americans, rather than the European immigrants. In addition to his career as a writer, Coldsmith was a medical doctor, serving as a family practitioner in Emporia, Kansas, until 1988, when he chose to concentrate"
"Lewis Goldsmith Lewis Goldsmith (c. 1763 – 6 January 1846) was an Anglo-French publicist of Portuguese-Jewish extraction. He is thought to have been born in Richmond, Surrey. In 1801, Goldsmith published ""The Crimes of Cabinets, or a Review of the Plans and Aggressions for Annihilating the Liberties of France and the Dismemberment of her Territories"", an attack on the military policy of Pitt. Soon afterward, in 1802, he moved from London to Paris. There Talleyrand introduced him to Napoleon. With Napoleon's assistance, Goldsmith established the ""Argus"", a biweekly publication in English reviewing English affairs from a French point of view."
"spent part of his childhood is also in the parish of Elphin. Smith Hill (house) Smith Hill or Smithhill is an early nineteenth-century house situated about 1.5 km east of Elphin, County Roscommon, in Ardnagowan. It is believed that the poet, playwright and novelist Oliver Goldsmith may have been born in an earlier house on the site while his mother, Ann Goldsmith (née Jones), was visiting her parents, the Rev. Oliver Jones and wife. It was later the seat of the Rev. John Lloyd, a kinsman of Oliver Goldsmith. In 1847, Lloyd was famously murdered by his tenant Owen Beirne."
"Brett Goldsmith Brett Hugh Goldsmith (born 4 June 1961) is an Australian-born songwriter, music programmer/producer and photographer. Goldsmith is the son of British-born actress Rona Newton-John and Melbourne nightclub owner Brian Goldsmith. His grandfather was University of Melbourne professor Brinley (""Bryn"") Newton-John. His great-grandfather was German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born. Olivia Newton-John is his aunt, singer/actress Tottie Goldsmith is his younger sister and race car driver Emerson Newton-John his younger half-brother. In the mid 1980s Goldsmith programmed (and played bass guitar & keyboards on) the album ""Chantoozies"" for the band Chantoozies, a top ten album which was"
"Barbara Goldsmith Barbara Goldsmith (May 18, 1931 – June 26, 2016) was an American author, journalist, and philanthropist. She received critical and popular acclaim for her best selling books, essays, articles, and her philanthropic work. She was awarded four honoris causa doctorates, and numerous awards; been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, two Presidential Commissions, and the New York State Council on the Arts; and honored by The New York Public Library Literary Lions as well as the Literacy Volunteers, the American Academy in Rome, The Authors Guild, and the Guild Hall Academy of Arts for Lifetime"
"Clifford Goldsmith Clifford Goldsmith (March 29, 1899 – July 11, 1971) was an American writer, best known for his play ""What a Life"", from which ""The Aldrich Family"" radio and television series and the ""Henry Aldrich"" film series were derived. In 1943, ""Time"" magazine reported that Goldsmith earned ""radio's fattest writing fee ($3,000 for one show a week)."" Goldsmith was born in East Aurora, New York, the son of Charles Goldsmith and Edith Henshaw Goldsmith. His father was the local high school's principal. Goldsmith's mother died in 1907; he and his half-sister were orphaned when their father died in 1909."
"Forgney Forgney is an area in County Longford associated with the poet Oliver Goldsmith. The Church of Ireland church in Forgney, the ""Church of St. Munis"", is where the Rev. Charles Goldsmith, father of the poet, administered from 1718 to 1730. The present church was built in 1810 and replaced that of Goldsmith's day. The church contains a stained glass window with a brass plaque erected in 1897 and inscribed: The church is on the R392 regional road. John Henry Patterson was born in Forgney in 1867. He was an Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter, author and Zionist, best known for his"
"Oliver Goldsmith (company) Oliver Goldsmith is a British eyewear design company established in London in 1926 by Phillip Oliver Goldsmith. Under the directorship of his son Charles ""Oliver"" Goldsmith, grandsons Andrew Oliver and Raymond, and great-granddaughter Claire Goldsmith, the brand became known worldwide for its innovative designs for glasses and sunglasses worn by celebrities such as Diana Dors and Audrey Hepburn. Hepburn's famous sunglasses in ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" were a Oliver Goldsmith design. The sunglasses side of the brand ceased producing in 1985 but was re-launched in 2005 after a 20 year hiatus. The spectacle side has remained in production"
"The Traveller (poem) The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society (1764) is a philosophical poem by Oliver Goldsmith. In heroic verse of an Augustan style it discusses the causes of happiness and unhappiness in nations. It was the work which first made Goldsmith's name, and is still considered a classic of mid-18th-century poetry. The dedication to ""The Traveller"" sets out Goldsmith's purpose: I have attempted to show, that there may be equal happiness in states, that are differently governed from our own; that every state has a particular principle of happiness, and that this principle in each may be carried"
"great Augustan poet""; and Angus Ross thought that ""The Traveller"" proved him a poet with an individual voice, citing particularly its ""genuine and deep note of feeling"". The Traveller (poem) The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society (1764) is a philosophical poem by Oliver Goldsmith. In heroic verse of an Augustan style it discusses the causes of happiness and unhappiness in nations. It was the work which first made Goldsmith's name, and is still considered a classic of mid-18th-century poetry. The dedication to ""The Traveller"" sets out Goldsmith's purpose: I have attempted to show, that there may be equal happiness"
"S. J. Goldsmith S. J. Goldsmith (; born Shmuel Yosef Goldshmidt; 18 April 1915 – 18 January 1995), also known as Sam Goldsmith, was a journalist, author, and editor in the European Jewish press and English press. Goldsmith was born in Jonava, Lithuania. He graduated from the Hebrew high school ('Schwabes') in Kaunas and from the University of Vitautas the Great in Kaunas. His early career was in the Jewish press of Eastern Europe, writing for the daily """" (""The Jewish Voice""). From 1934 to 1939 he wrote for ""Hayntike Nayes"" (""Today's News""), becoming the editor of the evening edition"
"Smith Hill (house) Smith Hill or Smithhill is an early nineteenth-century house situated about 1.5 km east of Elphin, County Roscommon, in Ardnagowan. It is believed that the poet, playwright and novelist Oliver Goldsmith may have been born in an earlier house on the site while his mother, Ann Goldsmith (née Jones), was visiting her parents, the Rev. Oliver Jones and wife. It was later the seat of the Rev. John Lloyd, a kinsman of Oliver Goldsmith. In 1847, Lloyd was famously murdered by his tenant Owen Beirne. Ballyoughter where Oliver Goldsmith's father was born and where Oliver Goldsmith himself"
"38 years at the time of his death. Clifford Goldsmith Clifford Goldsmith (March 29, 1899 – July 11, 1971) was an American writer, best known for his play ""What a Life"", from which ""The Aldrich Family"" radio and television series and the ""Henry Aldrich"" film series were derived. In 1943, ""Time"" magazine reported that Goldsmith earned ""radio's fattest writing fee ($3,000 for one show a week)."" Goldsmith was born in East Aurora, New York, the son of Charles Goldsmith and Edith Henshaw Goldsmith. His father was the local high school's principal. Goldsmith's mother died in 1907; he and his half-sister"
"discovered several papers by Alexander Pope that Henry St John, the poet's literary executor, had collected. Among them was a manuscript in Pope's handwriting of his unfinished poem ""One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty"". Malone transcribed a facsimile of the manuscript, including ""interlineations, corrections, alterations"", but he failed to publish it and the original manuscript has since been lost. On 4 April 1774, the Irish-born author Oliver Goldsmith died. Malone had known Goldsmith, either in Dublin or in London in the 1760s, and to honour his friend he participated in an amateur production of Goldsmith's ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1773)."