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Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer, poet, and physician, (1912). Irish-born British playwright, dramatist and novelist Goldsmith (1730-1774) is best remembered for the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), and the play She Stoops to Conquer (1773). Illustration from Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London, by John Adcock, (J M Dent and Sons, London, New York, 1912).