Authority Cited: Skelton
Author name and dates: Philip Skelton (1707–1787)
BKG Bio-tweet: Irish Anglican cleric; twice sold library to feed congregation; prolific author on social issues-inoculation; Madden curate
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Skelton cite was identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Skelton additions were found in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, 1975, lists item 129 . . . Deism Revealed, 2v. The DNB says that Skelton's 1744 Candid Reader satirized Samuel Johnson - the "Candid Reader" is referring to the 1729 play Hurlothrumbo, by Samuel Johnson of Cheshire.]
Author name and dates: Philip Skelton (1707–1787)
BKG Bio-tweet: Irish Anglican cleric; twice sold library to feed congregation; prolific author on social issues-inoculation; Madden curate
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Skelton cite was identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Skelton additions were found in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, 1975, lists item 129 . . . Deism Revealed, 2v. The DNB says that Skelton's 1744 Candid Reader satirized Samuel Johnson - the "Candid Reader" is referring to the 1729 play Hurlothrumbo, by Samuel Johnson of Cheshire.]
- Truth in a Mask, 1744, Dublin: printed by George Faulkner; unstinted (p.189, SJ abridges two sections of dialogue, perhaps from memory)
- Skelton (no work cited);
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