Alexander Bicknell

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Alexander Bicknell
Died1796

Alexander Bicknell (died 1796), author, was an industrious littérateur of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, whose writings received ridicule or faint praise in the Monthly Review. He died 22 August 1796 in St. Thomas's Hospital, London.

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  • History of Edward Prince of Wales, commonly termed the Black Prince, octavo, 1777
  • Life of Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons, octavo, 1777
  • The Putrid Soul, a Poetical Epistle to Joseph Priestley, LL.D., quarto, 1780.
  • The Patriot Historical of Lady Rewards of Good Nature'.
  • The Benevolent Man, a Novel'.
  • Prince Arthur, an Allegorical Romance'.
  • Doncaster Races, or the History of Miss Maitland, a True Tale, in a series of letters, 2 vols. duodecimo, 1790.
  • A History of England and the British Empire, duodecimo, 1791.
  • The Grammatical Wreath, or a Complete System of English Grammar, duodecimo, 1790.
  • Instances of the Mutability of Fortune, selected from Ancient and Modern History, octavo, 1792.
  • Philosophical Disquisitions on the Christian Religion, addressed to Soame Jenyns, Esquire, and Dr. Kenrick'.

It is stated on the title-page of No. 9 that Bicknell edited Captain J. Carver's Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, octavo, 1778, and Mrs. George Anne Bellamy's Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, 6 vols. duodecimo, 1785.[DNB 1][1]

References[]

  1. ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Charles William Sutton (1886). "Bicknell, Alexander" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 9.

DNB references[]

These references are found in the DNB article referred to above.

  1. ^ Monthly Review, vols. lvii. lviii. lxiii. lxxviii., New Series, ii. iv. v. ix.; Gentlemen's Magazine; Watt's Bibl. British

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