Biography oliver goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was a renowned Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist, and poet[1†].

He is celebrated for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur’d Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773)[1†].

Biography oliver goldsmith

Some believe he also wrote the classic children’s tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765)[1†].

Early Years and Education

Oliver Goldsmith was born on November 10, 1730, in either Kilkenny West, County Westmeath, or Elphin, County Roscommon, in the Kingdom of Ireland[2†][3†].

His father, the Rev. Charles Goldsmith, was an Anglo-Irish clergyman[2†]. When Oliver was two years old, his father became the rector of the parish of Kilkenny West in County Westmeath, which led to the family moving to the parsonage at Lissoy[2†][4†].

Goldsmith enrolled at Trinity College in Dublin in 1744 to study t