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William Flexney - publisher

Biography


Birth: 1731
Death: 1808

Publisher, living near Grays Inn Gate, Holborn (from at least 1762 to 1792). Married (1762) to a Ms. Broughton. Original publisher of the poems of Charles Churchill. He went bankrupt in 1793. (Link)

Life with James Boswell

Flexney published Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of 'Elvira', written by Mr. David Malloch and Letters Between the Honourable Andrew Erskine and James Boswell, Esq. (1763) Boswell had Supper with Flexney and the printer Samuel Chandler on July 8, 1763.

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