Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Fanny Kemble | FK
, not yet twenty, made a triumphant Covent Garden Theatre
debut as Shakespeare
's Juliet, saving her father
's company from bankruptcy. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977. 42-3 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. |
| Literary responses | Claire Luckham | Patrick Sandford
, who directed the first production, found exciting challenges in the play's shift in register from the stylised high comedy of the stage of Covent Garden
, to the raw sometimes violent naturalism... |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Brunton | As tourists MB
and her husband were just as interested in cultural events, industries, and industrial and military trade as they were in, for instance, old buildings. On her first visit to London she attended... |
| Friends, Associates | Dinah Mulock Craik | In London, the young Dinah Mulock was able to attend the theatre regularly, thanks to the offer of a private Covent Garden Theatre
box for her family from Charles James Mathews
and his wife... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She describes, without naming names, her friendship with a German singer of Wagnerian roles, first met when he sang Tristan at Covent Garden
in 1923. She met him nine years later in New York, found... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | FK
's father, the actor Charles Kemble
, inherited the management of Covent Garden Theatre
in London in 1817 (at a time when it was in financial difficulties) when his brother John Philip Kemble
retired. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977. 7, 12 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Susanna Haswell
married William Rowson
. He was a musician (playing the trumpet for the Royal Horse Guards
) and sometimes an actor with Covent Garden Theatre
, as well as dealing in hardware. He... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | SL
's father, John Lee
, was a quarrelsome and impecunious actor. The year of her birth he acted at Richmond and Covent Garden
, with an interim desertion to Drury Lane
, where, however... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Gardner | The young actress Sarah Cheney
married William Gardner
, a journeyman actor at Covent Garden
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Employer | Andrea Levy | During her early, drifting years AL
worked designing woven textiles, but realised in about ten minutes that designing was not for her. Levy, Andrea. “Back to my Own Country”. British Library Windrush Stories, 2018. |
| Education | Elizabeth Grant | While the family resided in London, theatre-going provided another much-welcomed form of education and entertainment. EG
once attended a production of The Caravan, featuring John Kemble
, in which Carlo, the famous Newfoundland... |
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