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twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of
America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates." Before the year was out, Gildon responded with a mocking satire, whose title page in return is "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr. D---- De F--, of London, Hosier, who has liv'd above fifty Years by himself in the Kingdoms of North and South Britain. The various Shapes he has appear'd in, and the Discoveries he has made for the Benefit of his Country. In a Dialogue between Him, Robinson Crusoe, and His Man Friday. With Remarks Serious and Comical upon the Life of Crusoe." Gildon used a dialogue between Defoe and his characters Robinson Crusoe and Friday to expose narrative inconsistencies in Defoe's novel. On page xvii, Crusoe and Friday make Defoe swallow his own big books as a punishment for his unfair depiction of his characters, saying "if you will make such large Compositions, you must take them for your Pains." Without explicitly identifying Gildon, Defoe defended himself against his critics in his preface to
320:(1696). Gildon wrote two sheets of Mrs. Manley's life under the title of The History of Rivella, Author of the Atalantis, probably in a negative light. Delarivier Manley persuaded the publisher Edmund Curll to defer the publication; soon Manley met and reconciled with Gildon to suppress his materials. Then Manley wrote her own version of history under strict time constraints and published it anonymously under the title
77:. He left college without ordination and moved to England in 1684, at the age of 19. Two years later, he moved to London, where he immediately spent or lost his patrimony. Two years after that, in 1688, he married a woman without money. He almost immediately turned to writing as a method of getting money.
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who "keeps six Whores, and starves his modest Wife". Gildon apparently did not forget Defoe's insult. In 1719, Defoe published his tale of
Robinson Crusoe's adventures. Defoe's title page reads "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: who lived eight and
152:. Writing as "Lindamour", Gildon prefaced this new collection with an invented letter "To the Honorable and Divine Hermione. Giving an account of the Life and Death of the Author.", also known as Gildon's hagiographic "Life of Blount".
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For six months, Gildon conducted attacks on
Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. He attacked Swift for Swift's enmity with Mainwaring, and his quarrel with Pope was probably similarly political. After
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figures, although he appears to have propagated or introduced errors. Gildon's biographies are often the only biographies available, but they have often been shown to have invention in them.
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107:, whereas Behn was probably a Cavalier spy), it is possible that Gildon did know and seek out Behn, but his account of her life has many errors (including a credulous reading of
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182:(1705) to attack Deism. He produced a series of tales, including "The Post-Boy Robb'd of his Mail", "The Golden Spy," and "All for the Better" between 1692 and 1720.
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Charles Gildon, 'Some
Reflections on Mr. Rymer's Short View of Tragedy, and an Attempt at a Vindication of Shakespear, in an Essay directed to John Dryden Esq.', in:
103:, claiming to have been her close friend. Inasmuch as he and Behn were both probably royalists from Dorset (although only Gildon's family had been active during the
46:. Due to Pope's caricature of Gildon as well as the volume and rapidity of his writings, Gildon has become the epitome of the hired pen and literary opportunist.
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and translator. He produced biographies, essays, plays, poetry, fictional letters, fables, short stories, and criticism. He is remembered best as a target of
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144:, Blount's "Summary Account of the Deists Religion", and several letters (tracts) prepared by Blount, Gildon, and other writers. In 1695, Gildon republished
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Buschmann-Göbels, "Bellum Grammaticale (1712)—A battle of books and a battle for the market" in Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (ed.),
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159:'s recently published criticisms of Shakespeare and other 'modern' plays and their authors, Goldin presented a defense of the modernism of
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Gildon is involved with the biographies of women writers. He is assumed to be the biographer who masqueraded as "One of the Fair Sex" of
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also included Gildon's treatise on "Logic; or, The Art of
Reasoning". Gildon's "Logic" is an unattributed translation of a large part of
73:. While one of Charles's cousins, Joseph, would become a Catholic priest, Charles's parents fled to France, and Charles was educated at
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357:(patron and friend to Swift and Pope, earlier) gave him a 100-pound annuity as a "Royal Bounty." On 12 December 1723, a benefit of
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English". But for his contemporaries, it tends to be read as "a Menippean satire, a re-adaptation of Apuleius's
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By 1719, Gildon was blind and impoverished. Pope suggested, in his correspondence, that the blindness was due to
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Miscellaneous letters and essays on several subjects philosophical, moral, historical, critical, amorous, &c
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which he dedicated to the Duchess of Buckingham. In it, he reiterated Rymer's dicta of
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by then (in contrast to his family's Toryism and Jacobitism), published letters to the
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to come visit England, with an eye toward being on hand to take the throne upon Queen
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paid his fine. The letters were sufficient provocation to carry a prison term or the
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was probably intended for him. Gildon died in London on 1 January 1724.
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Grammars, grammarians and grammar-writing in eighteenth-century England
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family that had been active in support of the Royalist side during the
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The Deist's Manual: or, A Rational Enquiry into the Christian Religion
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of 1692. Much of Gildon's translation of Le Clerc was appropriated by
751:. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. p. 236, note 7.
611:(1 ed.). London: James and John Knapton, John Darby, and others.
521:(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp.193-226 (p.213).
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Lamb, Jonathan (2001), 'Modern Metamorphoses and Disgraceful Tales',
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Sambrook, James. In, Matthew, H.C.G. and Brian Harrison, eds.
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395:. London: A. Roper; Fran. Coggan; and Geo. Strahan.
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438:The Miscellaneous Works of Charles Blount, Esq;
436:Blount, Charles (1695). Gildon, Charles (ed.).
406:Blount, Charles (1693). Gildon, Charles (ed.).
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654:(Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008), pp. 81–100.
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713:. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 278, note 5.
22:(c. 1665 – 1 January 1724), was an English
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