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  • Chapter 3 - Friendships and Feuds

  • from Part I - Life and Career
  • Edited by Michael Griffin, University of Limerick, David O'Shaughnessy, University of Galway
  • Book:
    Oliver Goldsmith in Context
    Published online:
    28 November 2024
    Print publication:
    07 November 2024, pp 21-27

  • Summary

    This chapter outlines how Goldsmith’s friendships and feuds were rooted in his professional life as a writer. Brief summaries of his relationships with Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Joshua Reynolds are included as are his friendships with lesser known Irish figures such as John Carteret Pilkington and Edmund Purdon. The chapter also considers more fraught relationships such as those with Hugh Kelly and William Kenrick. The centrality of literary works such as She Stoops to Conquer, The Good Natur’d Man, and The Traveller to the evolution of both friendships and feuds is detailed.