Samuel French

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Textual Production Fay Weldon
FW 's Flood Warning: A Play (for two men and three women) was published by Samuel French .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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Textual Production George Paston
Annie Horniman gave this play two successful revivals in Manchester: at the Midland Hotel Theatre in October 1907, and at the Gaiety Theatre in 1908, where its proceeds guaranteed the season's financial success.
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press.
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Textual Production Fay Weldon
This play was published in October 1980 by Samuel French .
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1982
Weldon, Fay. Action Replay. Samuel French.
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Textual Production George Paston
The production was a success, running for 167 performances. The play was published the same year by Samuel French .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
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Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1910-1919. Scarecrow Press.
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Textual Production George Paston
It was revived at the same theatre on 20 March 1909, when it ran for eighty-three performances, and was published that year by Samuel French .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
875
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1900-1909. Scarecrow Press.
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Textual Production George Paston
This popular play saw two West End revivals the following year. First it had thirty-nine performances at His Majesty's Theatre alongside Bernard Shaw 's The Admirable Bashville, and this was followed by ninety-eight performances...
Textual Production Elizabeth Baker
Sidgwick and Jackson published Miss Tassey in 1913. Cupid in Clapham did not appear in print until several years later, in French 's series One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, 1927.
Textual Production George Paston
The production transferred to Wyndham's in February to complete its run of 135 performances. It was published the same year by Samuel French .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
875
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1910-1919. Scarecrow Press.
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Textual Production George Paston
The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton 's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League
Textual Production Elizabeth Baker
It was published by French in 1921.
Textual Production George Paston
It was published by Samuel French in 1919.
Textual Production Charlotte Riddell
The play was printed by Samuel French as George Geith; or, Romance of a City Life, A Drama in four acts and a tableau, 1880. Reeve and his leading lady, Ada Lester , toured...
Textual Production Pam Gems
Eighteen months later the production transferred to London's Comedy Theatre . Samuel French published the text in 1987.
Textual Production Harriett Jay
This did even better than most of their joint plays, clocking up their longest consecutive run (256 performances).
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.
By early 1897 HJ transformed it into a novel (her final work of fiction) under the same...
Textual Production Dodie Smith
DS once again had trouble placing her next plays, That Which Hath Been, set in a monastery, and Amateur Means Lover, set in a Camden Town rooming house. The latter was eventually performed...

Timeline

1957: Dulcie Gray launched her publishing career:...

Women writers item

1957

Dulcie Gray launched her publishing career: Samuel French issued her playLove Affair (which had been staged the previous year) and the first of her murder mysteries, Murder on the Stairs, also appeared.

1958: Elaine Morgan's one-act play The Waiting-Room...

Women writers item

1958

Elaine Morgan 's one-act playThe Waiting-Room was published by Samuel French .

Texts

Bagnold, Enid. The Chinese Prime Minister. Samuel French, 1964.
Dane, Clemence. A Bill of Divorcement. Samuel French, 1921.
Dane, Clemence, and Richard Addinsell. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Samuel French, 1948.
Dane, Clemence. Eighty in the Shade. Samuel French, 1959.
Dane, Clemence. Granite. Samuel French, 1926.
Farjeon, Eleanor et al. The Silver Curlew. Samuel French, 1953.
Frye, Kate Parry, and John Robert Collins. Cease Fire!. Samuel French, 1921.
Gems, Pam. Camille. Samuel French, 1987.
Gems, Pam. Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi. Samuel French, 1977.
Hamilton, Cicely. Diana of Dobson’s. Samuel French, 1925.
Hamilton, Cicely. Jack and Jill and a Friend. Samuel French, 1911.
Hamilton, Cicely. Just to Get Married. Samuel French, 1914.
Hamilton, Cicely. The Child in Flanders. Samuel French, 1922.
Jay, Harriett, and Robert Williams Buchanan. The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown. Samuel French, 1909.
Johnston, Jennifer. The Nightingale and not the Lark. Samuel French, 1980.
Keane, Molly, and John Perry. Dazzling Prospect. Samuel French, 1961.
Keane, Molly, and John Perry. Spring Meeting. Samuel French, 1938.
Keane, Molly, and John Perry. Treasure Hunt. Samuel French, 1952.
Paston, George. Double or Quits. Samuel French, 1919.
Paston, George. Feed the Brute. Samuel French, 1909.
Paston, George. Stars. Samuel French, 1925.
Paston, George. Stuffing. Samuel French, 1912.
Pinter, Harold. The Collection. Samuel French, 1963.
Rubens, Bernice. Hijack. Samuel French, 1993.
Sowerby, Githa. Before Breakfast. Samuel French, 1913.