Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons.
69, 70
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Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Lennox | Seventeen years after the brief, inglorious appearance of The Sister, Sir John Burgoyne
raided it for his successful comedy The Heiress, which opened at Drury Lane
on 14 January 1786. Twenty years after... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Matilda Betham | As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(who later talked with high praise of her), Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons. 69, 70 |
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 | Charlotte Charke | Charlotte's father, Colley Cibber
, was an actor, manager of Drury Lane Theatre
, and Poet Laureate: he had become an unfaithful husband before Charlotte was born, and he was at the peak of his... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Delarivier Manley | At the time her first play was produced DM
was said, perhaps not accurately, to be having an affair with Skipwith
, co-manager of Drury Lane
. Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, p. various pages. 87-8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Hatton | Actress Sarah Siddons
had her first triumph at Drury Lane
, four months after the birth of her fifth and last child. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 14: 8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | Tom Sheridan
, CN
's father, son of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, bore the same name as his famous eighteenth-century grandfather, the actor, and great-grandfather, the clergyman and schoolmaster. He had been an... |
Employer | Elizabeth Cooper | As a means of earning money she went on the stage. In January 1734 she appeared at Drury Lane
, and in April that year she organised her own benefit at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre |
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... |
death | David Garrick | Drury Lane Theatre
was dark this night as a mark of respect for DG
, actor-manager and playwright, who had died that morning at 5 Adelphi Terrace, London. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 192 |
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