James White (writer and translator)

James White (1759–1799), historical novelist, was born in Dublin. He was elected a scholar of Trinity College Dublin, in 1778 and graduated BA in 1780. Nothing is known about his family, or the reasons that brought him to England where he spent the rest of his life.[1]

Works
  • Hints of a Specific Plan for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1788)
  • Earl Strongbow: or the History of Richard de Clare and the Beautiful Geralda (1789)
  • The Adventures of John of Gaunt (1790)[2]
  • The Adventures of King Richard Coeur de Lion (1791)[3]

Notes
  1. Artemis Gause, ‘White, James (1759–1799)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Feb 2011
  2. The Adventures of John of Gaunt from Google Books
  3. The Adventures of King Richard Coeur de Lion from Google Books
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gollark: I did NOT say mind reading.
gollark: Perhaps.
gollark: It doesn't really make sense for the reader to be able to get things that somehow the combined intellect of every in-world character for several hundred years has missed.
gollark: Or, well, it allows you to do that.

References
  • J. M. S. Tompkins. "James White, Esq.: A Forgotten Humourist". The Review of English Studies, Vol. 3, No. 10 (Apr., 1927), pp. 146–156.
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