Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish author and poet during the Victorian Era. Goldsmith's best known works include The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer.

Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish author and poet during the Victorian Era. Goldsmith's best known works include The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer.

"Le Vicaire de Wakefield" par Oliver Goldsmith. Oliver Goldsmith etait un ecrivain irlandais (1728-1774)."

"An argosy of fables" from Oliver Goldsmith. Irish novelist, playwright and poet (1730-1774).

"Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome" from Oliver Goldsmith. Irish novelist, playwright and poet (1730-1774).

"She Stoops to Conquer" from Oliver Goldsmith. Irish novelist, playwright and poet (1730-1774).

"The Vicar of Wakefield" from Oliver Goldsmith. Irish novelist, playwright and poet (1730-1774).

She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith that was first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in Britain and the United States.

The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. From this motive, I had scarce taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surfaces but such qualities as would wear well.