The Life and Unparalleled Voyages and Adventures of Ambrose Gwinett, Formerly Well Known to the Public, as the Lame Beggar, Written by Himself.

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Title The Life and Unparalleled Voyages and Adventures of Ambrose Gwinett, Formerly Well Known to the Public, as the Lame Beggar, Written by Himself.
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Signed Author Ambrose Gwinett, Formerly Well Known to the Public, as the Lame Beggar, Written by Himself.
Pseudonym Ambrose Gwinett
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Pagination 36
Date of Publication 1805
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Imprint Printed by T. Maiden for Ann Lemoine and J. Roe
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Location of Printing London GB
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Notes The title page attributes this chapbook to Isaac Bickerstaff, but Bickerstaff was a well-known pseudonym for both Jonathan Swift and Richard Steele. Thomas Frost in In Kent with Charles Dickens reports reading an edition of Ambrose Gwinett that was dated 1731. Frost speculates that the author was “probably a Grub Street hack, who would write the story for a guinea, of, for the same honorarium, produce a pamphlet to be published with the name of some peer or M.P. on the title page; and he may have lent his name to Swift and Steele, for some such consideration, and allowed them afterwards to treat him as a non-existent person” (Bearden-White 144)
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Unknown. The Life and Unparalleled Voyages and Adventures of Ambrose Gwinett, Formerly Well Known to the Public, as the Lame Beggar, Written by Himself.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 13960, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/13960. Accessed 2024-04-26. 

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