Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

From August 1823 MRM was planning a grand historical tragedy on the greatest subject in English story—Charles and Cromwell. She noted Cromwell 's domestic virtues and thought of him as a man acting...

This book too has achieved iconic status. It is probably more responsible than Animal Farm for the establishment of the adjective Orwellian in the English language to signify much that Orwell particularly detested and attacked...

FK gave an emotional farewell performance at Covent Garden before embarking on an American tour with her father and Aunt Dall .

CP marked her return from Paris with a triumphal appearance at Covent Garden Opera House in London.

HC soon became a woman of the theatre. She wrote prologues and epilogues for others, and contributed a scene to Charles Dibdin 's pantomime The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller, which opened at Covent Garden

During the 1990s RF wrote three opera libretti. First, composer Erika Fox , commissioned by Covent Garden Opera House for their series The Garden Venture, invited Fainlight to provide a chamber opera libretto, and...

FK published Francis the First: An Historical Drama in verse under her own name; it appeared in the United States as Francis the First ; a Tragedy in Five Acts, as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

Though her authorship of Marriage had become to some extent known, she insisted on publishing her second novel anonymously, writing to her sister that she could not bear the fuss of authorism!Blackwood paid...

One critic argues that FK equated her life on the stage with a kind of slavery and therefore developed a keen sympathy for those in bondage; however, the actual conditions of slavery were probably quite...

The White Pilgrim; or, Castle of Olival, published, with SSW 's name, as translated from the popular French novel, Le Pelerin Blanc (by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt ), no doubt stemmed in actuality from...

Thomas Harris , manager of Covent Garden Theatre , informed FB 's brother Charles that he planned to stage her comedy Love and Fashion in March 1800.