Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Joanna Baillie | The Separation. A Tragedy, in Five Acts, by JB
, was first staged at Covent Garden
, London. This play does not appear to have been published. Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books. 159 |
Reception | Joanna Baillie | In general JB
was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald
, for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
and Anne Damer
both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart
did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 158-9, 244 Slagle, editor of JB |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | Another play by BBBD
, called Isaure and having as protagonist a refined patrician beauty, Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt. 383 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Cooper | Elizabeth Cooper
's comedy The Rival Widows; or, Fair Libertine opened at Covent Garden
, where it ran for long enough to give her the profits of two benefit nights. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 463, 464, 466 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | EMA
resumed play-writing when she and her second husband were re-settled in London, opening their first season at Brandenburg House in Fulham in autumn 1792. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii. lxxxvi |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fenwick | EF
arranged for her daughter Eliza Anne
to give lessons in the Mocatta household in drawing and singing. Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press. 119 |
Occupation | David Garrick | Garrick proposed to charge full price, instead of half, for arrivals after the third act. Riots followed at Covent Garden
(the other licensed theatre) the next month. |
Occupation | David Garrick | Covent Garden
imitated Drury Lane one month later. |
Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | |
Employer | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
became a member of the London stage community when she joined the Covent Garden
theatre company. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's comedy The Double Mistake opened at Covent Garden Theatre
: in contrast to her first effort it ran well, bringing her several benefits and a royal command performance. Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xviii. xxx Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's comedy A Wife in the Right opened at Covent Garden Theatre
, only to be damned for Edward Shuter
's bad acting and fluffing his lines (he was drunk on stage). The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 1567 |
Performance of text | Felicia Hemans | FH
's The Vespers of Palermo was produced at London's Covent Garden
theatre with Charles Kemble
in the lead role; it was published the same year. Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 70 Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 277 Hemans, Felicia. The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray. |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Inchbald | Such Things Are, a comedy by EI
, opened at Covent Garden
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 952 |
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