Henry Brooke

Alex Wetmore (University College of the Fraser Valley)

Ed. by Daniel Cook, University of Dundee
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

Dates

Born 1703
Died 1783
Activity 1723-1783

Places

Born in Ireland, Republic of (Eire)
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Poet

Resources

Even though Henry Brooke worked in a wide variety of genres – poetry, drama, political pamphlets, periodicals – he is remembered primarily now for two popular novels of sensibility: The Fool of Quality (published in five volumes from 1765-1770) and Juliet Grenville (published in three volumes in 1774).

Brooke was born in approximately 1703, in County Cavan, Ireland, the son of Lettice Digby Brooke and William Brooke, a protestant clergyman. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, before continuing on to Middle College in London. While in London, Brooke became friends with Alexander Pope, and made his initial foray into the literary world with the poem Universal Beauty (1735), whose main …

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Citation: Wetmore, Alex. "Henry Brooke". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 March 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=585, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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