The Scarlet Pimpernel Edmondston-Alston House dramatist and novelist Goldsmith (1730-1774)

dramatist and novelist Goldsmith (1730-1774) is best remembered for the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

analysis and investigated the theory of quadratic forms

He competed in several Grand Prix as well as Le Mans

drawn from Nature

inscribed Pension to one of the rats

The Scarlet Pimpernel Edmondston-Alston House dramatist and novelist Goldsmith (1730-1774)Scene from The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Julia Neilson, Fred Terry, Horace Hodges, Malcolm Cherry and Alfred Kendrick. The play, set during the French Revolution, opened at London's New Theatre in January 1905. Despite a poor reception from the critics, it became a great popular success.