The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they...
Intertextuality and Influence
Henrietta Battier
HB
's mock epithalamium is a close parody of Dryden
's Alexander's Feast, and had the ROYAL
Battier, Henrietta. Marriage Ode Royal. Sold at No. 17, Fade Street.
title-page
on her title-page printed upside-down. She brings together in her sights the prince as an individual...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Barker
JB
writes to one male friend (my Adopted Brother) on his approaching marriage, not to congratulate but to dissuade.
Barker, Jane. Poetical Recreations. Benjamin Crayle.
The full title-page makes clear how this is not a novel as understood today: A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies; or Love and Virtue Recommended: In a Collection of Instructive Novels. Related After a Manner...
Wealth and Poverty
Penelope Aubin
A Mrs Aubin, probably PA
, received the profits from a benefit performance of Dryden
's The Spanish Friar at Lincoln's Inn Fields
.
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.