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George Frederick Cooke

  

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George Frederick Cooke : Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: "The greatest pleasure I ever derived, of this kind, was from an extract, in Cooke the actor's life, from his journal, saying that in the reading-room of Albany, near Washington, he perused English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."

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