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DORAN, JOHN (1807-1878)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 421 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DORAN, See also:JOHN (1807-1878) , See also:English author, was See also:born in See also:London of Irish parentage on the 11th of See also:March 1807. He became See also:tutor in several distinguished families, and while travelling on the See also:continent contributed journalistic sketches to The See also:Literary See also:Chronicle, a See also:paper which was afterwards incorporated with The See also:Athenaeum. His See also:play, Jitstice or the Venetian See also:Jew, was produced at the See also:Surrey See also:theatre in 1824, and in 1830 he began to write See also:translations from See also:French, See also:German, Latin and See also:Italian authors for The See also:Bath See also:Journal. After some years of travel on the continent he became in 1841 literary editor of The See also:Church and See also:State See also:Gazette, and in 1852 under the See also:title of Filia dolorosa produced a memoir of Maria Therese See also:Charlotte, duchesse d'See also:Angouleme. Two years later he became a See also:regular contributor to The Athenaeum, succeeding Hepworth See also:Dixon as editor for a See also:short See also:time in i869, until he became editor of Notes and Queries in 1870. His most elaborate See also:work, Their Majesties' Servants, a See also:history of the English See also:stage from See also:Betterton to See also:Kean, was published in 1860, and was supplemented by In and About See also:Drury See also:Lane, which was written for See also:Temple See also:Bar and was not published in See also:book See also:form till 1885, after Doran's See also:death. Among his other See also:works may be mentioned Table Traits and Habits of Men (1854), The Queens of the See also:House of See also:Hanover (1855), Knights and their Days (1856), Monarchs retired from Business (1856), The History of See also:Court See also:Fools (1858), an edition of the See also:Bentley See also:Ballads (1858), The Last See also:Journals of See also:Horace See also:Walpole (2 vols., 1859), The Princess of See also:Wales (1860), and the See also:Memoirs of See also:Queen See also:Adelaide (1861). These were followed by A See also:Lady of the Last See also:Century (1873), an See also:account of Mrs See also:Elizabeth See also:Montagu and the See also:blue-stockings; London in Jacobite Times (1877); and Memories of our See also:Great Towns (1878). Doran died in London, on the 25th of See also:January 1878.

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