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He was born in Enfield, Middlesex, the son of a Jewish merchant of Italian descent, and became a British subject in 1801. Although he had wished to be a creative writer, and published one or two novels, his forte was in literary illustrations of people and his- tory, as in his Curiosities of Literature (1791-1834), Calamities of Authors (1812) and a commentary on CHARLES! (1831). BYRON was an admirer of his work. He …