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Gorges Edmond Howard
1715–1786
An 18th-century Irish writer who moved easily between law, drama, and satire, he built a reputation for both practical legal works and lively literary experiments. His career mixed the worlds of Dublin publishing, the courts, and the stage.
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The Female Gamester: A Tragedy
by Gorges Edmond Howard
About the author
Born in Coleraine on August 28, 1715, he was educated at Thomas Sheridan's school in Dublin and first worked in the exchequer before turning to the law. He became a successful solicitor in Dublin, though his life was marked by money troubles as well as professional ambition.
He wrote across an unusually wide range of subjects. Alongside legal and political works on Irish practice and government, he also published plays, poetry, essays, and satires, showing a taste for both practical instruction and literary performance.
Howard died in 1786. Today he is remembered as a versatile Irish miscellaneous writer whose work offers a glimpse of 18th-century Dublin's legal, theatrical, and print culture.