1-629-552 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Oliver Goldsmith's house, 2 Brick Court, Temple, London, 1912. Irish-born British playwright, dramatist poet 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 Arthur St John Adcock, (J M Dent and Sons, London, New York, 1912).