James White (1759–1799), historical novelist, was born in Dublin. He was elected a scholar of Trinity College Dublin, in 1778 and graduated BA in 1780. Nothing is known about his family, or the reasons that brought him to England where he spent the rest of his life.[1]
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- ^ Artemis Gause, ‘White, James (1759–1799)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Feb 2011
- ^ The Adventures of John of Gaunt from Google Books
- ^ The Adventures of King Richard Coeur de Lion from Google Books
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- J. M. S. Tompkins. "James White, Esq.: A Forgotten Humourist". The Review of English Studies, Vol. 3, No. 10 (Apr., 1927), pp. 146–156.
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