Alexander Bicknell (died 1796), author, was an industrious
littérateur
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of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, whose writings received ridicule or faint praise in the British periodical ''
Monthly Review
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History Establishment
Following ...
''. It has been suggested that he also wrote under the pseudonym of Mrs Elizabeth Steele. He died 22 August 1796 in
St. Thomas's Hospital
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, London.
Works
* ''History of Edward Prince of Wales, commonly termed the Black Prince'', octavo, 1777
* ''Life of Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons'', octavo, 1777
* ''The Putrid Soul, a Poetical Epistle to Joseph Priestley, LL.D.'', quarto, 1780.
* ''The Patriot Historical of Lady Rewards of Good Nature'. ''
* ''The Benevolent Man, a Novel'. ''
* ''Prince Arthur, an Allegorical Romance'. ''
* ''The Memoirs of
Mrs Sophia Baddeley, late of
Drury Lane Theatre
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, by Mrs Elizabeth Steele (pseudonym), 1787.''
* ''Doncaster Races, or the History of Miss Maitland, a True Tale, in a series of letters'', 2 vols. duodecimo, 1790.
* ''A History of England and the British Empire'', duodecimo, 1791.
* ''The Grammatical Wreath, or a Complete System of English Grammar'', duodecimo, 1790.
* ''Instances of the Mutability of Fortune, selected from Ancient and Modern History'', octavo, 1792.
* ''Philosophical Disquisitions on the Christian Religion, addressed to Soame Jenyns, Esquire, and Dr. Kenrick'.''
It is stated on the title-page of No. 9 that Bicknell edited Captain J. Carver's ''Travels through the Interior Parts of North America'', octavo, 1778, and Mrs.
George Anne Bellamy's ''Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy'', 6 vols. duodecimo, 1785.
[Monthly Review, vols. lvii. lviii. lxiii. lxxviii., New Series, ii. iv. v. ix.; Gentlemen's Magazine; Watt's Bibl. British]
References
DNB references
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Year of birth missing
1796 deaths
18th-century English writers
Place of birth missing