| LC control no. | n 82064037 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR3605.M3 |
| Personal name heading | Moore, Edward, 1712-1757 |
| Variant(s) | Fitz-Adam, Adam, 1712-1757 Adam, Adam Fitz-, 1712-1757 |
| Birth date | 1712-03-22 |
| Death date | 1757-03-01 |
| Place of birth | Abingdon (England) |
| Place of death | Lambeth (London, England) |
| Profession or occupation | Dramatists Authors Poets |
| Found in | His The gamester, 1753. The foundling, 1792: title page (by Mr. Edward Moore) Wikipedia, 8 January 2018 (Edward Moore (dramatist); Edward Moore (22 March 1712--1 March 1757), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was born at Abingdon, Berkshire; he was the author of Fables for the Female Sex (1744), The Trial of Selim the Persian (1748), The Foundling (1748) and Gil Blas (1751); he wrote the domestic tragedy of The Gamester, originally produced in 1753 with David Garrick in the leading character of Beverley the gambler; as a poet he produced clever imitations of John Gay and Thomas Gray, and with the assistance of George, 1st Lord Lyttelton, Lord Chesterfield and Horace Walpole, conducted The World (1753-1757), a weekly periodical on the model of the Rambler; Moore collected his poems under the title of Poems, Fables and Plays in 1756; he died in Lambeth on 1 March 1757; his Dramatic Works were published in 1788) |
| Associated language | eng |
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