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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (c. 1728–1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, and poet, born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College Dublin. After moving to London, he supported himself through journalism and hack writing while developing a distinctive, humane literary voice. He achieved lasting fame with the novel *The Vicar of Wakefield* (1766), admired for its warmth and moral insight. As a dramatist he helped revive English comedy with *She Stoops to Conquer* (1773), a lively farce of mistaken identity and social pretension. Goldsmith also wrote influential poetry, including *The Traveller* (1764) and *The Deserted Village* (1770).