Charles Gildon

Charles Gildon (c. 1665 – 1 January 1724), was an English hack writer and translator. He produced biographies, essays, plays, poetry, fictional letters, fables, short stories, and criticism. He is remembered best as a target of Alexander Pope in Pope's ''Dunciad'' and his ''Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot'' and as an enemy of Jonathan Swift. Due to Pope's caricature of Gildon as well as the volume and rapidity of his writings, Gildon has become the epitome of the hired pen and literary opportunist.

He is a literary source for many biographies of Restoration figures, although he appears to have propagated or introduced errors. Gildon's biographies are often the only biographies available, but they have often been shown to have invention in them. Provided by Wikipedia

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by Gildon, Charles
Published 1718
printed for Charles Rivington

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by Gildon, Charles
Published 1720
Printed for Robert Gosling, at the Mitre, near the Inner-Temple Gate in Fleetstreet. 1710. Price 3s. 6d, sold by Robert Jeeb, bookseller, on the pavement, in York

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by Gildon, Charles
Published 1709
printed for Dan. Brown, at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar, G. Sawbridge, at the Three Flower-de-Luces, in Little-Britain, E. Sanger, at the Post-House, in Fleet-Street, S. Brisco, at the Raven, and J. Baker, at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-Row

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by Gildon, Charles
Published 1721
printed for W. Hinchliffe, at Dryden's Head, under the Royal-Exchange; and J. Walthoe, jun. over against the Royal-Exchange, in Cornhill

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by Gildon, Charles
Published 1708
printed for John Lawrence, at the Angel in the Poultry; and sold by A. Baldwin, in Warwick-Lane

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by Gildon, Charles
Published 1717
printed for S. Baker, at the Black Boy and Anchor in Pater-Noster-Row

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by Gildon, Charles
Published 1709
printed for J. Woodward in St. Christopher's Church-Yard, Thread-Needle-Street ; and J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall