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Francis Coventry

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Life
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Francis Coventry (1725 – 1754?) was an English cleric and novelist, best known for The History of Pompey the Little.

Life

A native of Cambridgeshire, he was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1748 and M.A. 1752.^[1] He was appointed by his kinsman the Earl of Coventry to the perpetual curacy of Edgware, and died of smallpox at Whitchurch.^[2]

Works

Coventry was the author of:^[2]

Penshurst, a poem, inscribed to William Perry, esq., and the Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth Perry, 1750, reprinted in vol. iv. of Dodsley's Miscellanies;
the fifteenth number of the World, 12 April 1753, containing Strictures on the Absurd Novelties introduced in Gardening;
the satirical romance and roman à clef, Pompey the Little, or the Adventures of a Lapdog, 1751 (5th ed. 1773), which Lady Mary Wortley Montagu preferred to Peregrine Pickle. Several characters in were intended for ladies well known in contemporary society.

Notes

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2. ^¹{{cite DNB|wstitle=Coventry, Francis|volume=12}}

Attribution

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External links

Francis Coventry at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
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