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Author: Jerningham, Edward

Biography:

JERNINGHAM, Edward (1737-1812: ODNB)

The youngest son of a wealthy recusant baronet, Sir George Jerningham, and his wife Mary Plowden, he was born at Costessey Hall in Norfolk and given a Catholic education in France. He never married but lived a bachelor life in London, attending salons and the theatre and publishing poems and plays that never made much of a mark. In the 1790s he converted to Anglicanism. Socially, he moved in aristocratic circles: he was a confidant of the Prince of Wales, looked up to Horace Walpole, knew Byron, contributed to Lady Miller's Batheaston Villa anthology. His correspondence, which began to be published in the middle of the nineteenth century, has proved more durable than his literary works. (ODNB 20 June 2019)

 

Other Names:

  • Mr. Jerningham
 

Books written (34):

London: J. Robson, 1770
3rd edn. London: Robson, 1772
London: J. Robson, 1773
London: Robson, 1773
London: J. Robson, 1774
London: J. Robson, 1775
4th edn. London: J. Robson, 1776
5th edn. Dublin: printed by William Hallhead, 1777
London: J. Robson, 1778
5th edn. London: J. Robson, 1779
6th edn. Dublin: [no publisher: printed by Hallhead], 1781
London: Robson, 1786
London: J. Robson and W. Clarke, 1789
7th edn. Philadelphia: Enoch Story, [1789?]
2nd edn. London: J. Robson, 1791
London: J. Robson, 1792
London: F. and C. Rivington and R. White, 1796
New edn. London: Robson, 1796
[2nd edn.--information about the edition appears on the half-title] London: F. and C. Rivington, and J. Hatchard, 1797
9th edn. London: Nornaville and Fell, 1806
London: W. Clarke, 1811
2nd edn. London: W. Clarke, 1812