Name Francis Coventry Role Novelist | Died 1759, Little Stan | |
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Books The history of Pompey the Little, The History of Pompey the Little, Or, The Life and Adventures of a Lap-dog | ||
The Adventures of a Lapdog 1751 Francis Coventry
Francis Coventry (1725 – 1754?) was an English cleric and novelist, best known for The History of Pompey the Little.
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Life
A native of Cambridgeshire, he was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1748 and M.A. 1752. He was appointed by his kinsman the Earl of Coventry to the perpetual curacy of Edgware, and died of smallpox at Whitchurch.
Works
Coventry was the author of:
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