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Deloney, Thomas

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Deloney, Thomas (c. 1543–1600)

English novelist and poet. His works portray the everyday life of middle-class citizens and artisans. The narratives are episodic in structure, but they employ humour and irony and often have a dramatic immediacy. Jack of Newberie (1597) tells of weavers, The Gentle Craft (1598) of shoemakers, and Thomas of Reading (1600) of clothiers.

Deloney worked as a silk weaver in Norwich and wrote pamphlets and popular ballads, one of which, on the scarcity of corn in 1596, led him into trouble with the authorities. After this he turned to writing prose fiction.

Collections of his verse are Strange Histories (1602) and The Garland of Good Will (1618).



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