Author: Stanley, William
Biography:
STANLEY, William (fl 1813)
The only work known to have been written by William Stanley is his farce, an explicit tribute to the recent Rejected Addresses, or The New Theatrum Poetarum (1812) of Horace and James Smith, qq.v. It was reviewed quite favourably in CR, and later advertisements quoted from that review; but MR thought it dull and conceded only a few parts of it to be “not without merit.” For Stanley himself no firm identification is as yet possible. (findmypast.com 25 Nov. 2024; CR 4 [1813], 216-17; MR 74 [1814], 103; London Courier 22 Apr. 1814)
Books written (1):
London: Cawthorn, [1813?]