Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34.
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Anne Jackson Mathews
Standard Name: Mathews, Anne Jackson
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Catherine Gore | Quid Pro Quo proved as controversial in production as in competition. Madame Vestris
, Charles Mathews
, and Anne Jackson Mathews
refused to play the parts assigned them and substitutes had to be found. |
| Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Charles Mathews
, later a well-known actor, accompanied them abroad. His wife
and son
(not his first wife, the writer Eliza Kirkham Mathews
) were also friends of Lady Blessington. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | EKM
's widower, Charles Mathews
, married his second wife, Anne Jackson
, a fellow-actor. The wedding took place in York. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Charles Mathews |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | The pair had met that summer. At four years the younger, he was just twenty-one. Mathews, Anne Jackson. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian. R. Bentley. 1: 198 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Charles Mathews |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | Again according to Anne Jackson
, the next Mrs Mathews, Eliza conceived a violent affection Mathews, Anne Jackson. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian. R. Bentley. 1: 332 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | On this date EKM
's husband indicated that the book was still unprinted. Publisher John Litchfield
mentioned it on 15 January 1801 as EKM
's new novel, implying that there had been others. According to... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | EKM
's husband
and brother-in-law
certainly had no high opinion of her writing. Her successor Anne Mathews
pronounced What Has Been to be very weak, although better than EKM
's other, even poorer, unpublished novels... |
| Fictionalization | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | EKM
's representation by her husband's second wife as a pathetic victim, idealistic but foolish and untalented, paved the way for Virginia Woolf
's portrait. Woolf seized on details given by Anne Mathews: the best... |
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Texts
Mathews, Anne Jackson. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian. R. Bentley, 1839.