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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Charles Johnstone (1719?–1800?)

Johnstone, Charles. An Irish novelist; born at Carrigogunnel, Limerick, about 1719; died at Calcutta, India, about 1800. He had wit and imagination, which he exploited in ‘Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea’ (1760–65), “the best scandalous chronicle” of its day; and in ‘History of John Juniper, Esq., alias Juniper Jack’ (1781).