Francis Coventry
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Francis Coventry (1725–1759) was an English cleric and novelist, best known for The History of Pompey the Little.
Life
A native of Cambridgeshire, he was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1748 and M.A. 1752.[1] He was appointed by his kinsman the Earl of Coventry to the perpetual curacy of Edgware, and died of smallpox at Whitchurch.[2][3]
Works
Coventry was the author of:[2]
- Penshurst, a poem, inscribed to William Perry, esq., and the Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth Perry, 1750, reprinted in vol. iv. of Dodsley's Miscellanies;
- the fifteenth number of the World, 12 April 1753, containing Strictures on the Absurd Novelties introduced in Gardening;
- the satirical romance and roman à clef, Pompey the Little, or the Adventures of a Lapdog, 1751 (5th ed. 1773), which Lady Mary Wortley Montagu preferred to Peregrine Pickle. Several characters in were intended for ladies well known in contemporary society.
Notes
- ^ "Coventry, Francis (CVNY744F)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ The Monthly Magazine: Or, British Register ... 1808. p. 588.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Coventry, Francis". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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- Francis Coventry at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
- Works by or about Francis Coventry at Internet Archive
- Works by Francis Coventry at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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