William Rufus Chetwood (Q387423)

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Revision as of 14:32, 28 November 2021 by Olaf Simons (talk | contribs) (‎Removed claim: Biographical notes (P173): Overall: In addition to working at various theaters, Chetwood was a bookseller, novelist, and playwright. His many plays, however, were not very lucrative or acclaimed; his prose fiction was more successful. Throughout the '30s, he declined in prosperity, and the first of a series of dire financial problems arose in 1741, when he became imprisoned in the King's Bench and a performance of William Congreve's The Old Bachelor was advertised as fo...)
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+ 1766, English publisher
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William Rufus Chetwood
+ 1766, English publisher

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    Human(s)
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    Gender
    Male gender
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    Date of death
    3 March 1766Gregorian
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    Place of death
    Dublin
    Note
    Chetwood died on 3 March 1766, probably in a debtors' prison: The Marshalsea, Dublin
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    Note
    Burling, William J. "Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5247
    Biographical notes
    Periodicals etc.: published in Dublin The Meddler, a periodical of essays on European news, satiric prose sketches, poetry, and theatrical advertisements 1744
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    Author
    Jacob Sider Jost/ Mary Naydan/ Noah Fusco, “Poets of the 1730s: A Digital Humanities Seedling” (2017/ 2021)
     

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