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3 unusual facts about George Brewer


George Brewer

He is believed to have written a novel, Tom Weston, when in the navy, but his first appeal to the public of which there is evidence was a comedy, How to be Happy acted at the Haymarket in August 1794.

He was writing at this time also in the European Magazine, among his contributions being Siamese Tales and Tales of the 12 Soubahs of Indostan; and some essays, announced as after the manner of Goldsmith, which were collected and published by subscription in 1806 as Hours of Leisure.

In 1808 Brewer produced another two-volume tale, The Witch of Ravensworth, and at about the same time he published The Juvenile Lavater, stories for the young to illustrate Le Brun's "Passions", which bears no date, but of which there were two or more issues, with slightly varying title-pages.



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