MFCP
's title-page quotes Aulus Gellius
. Her preface claims that she is merely editing an authentic manuscript, and that the preface is her only original contribution to the book. She also claims to have...
Education
Mrs F. C. Patrick
She must have been well educated. She has a good grasp of history and politics, and of canonical English fiction from Richardson
to her own most respected immediate female predecessors. She took a wry interest...
Timeline
2 April 1796: Vortigern and Rowena, allegedly a newly-discovered...
Writing climate item
2 April 1796
Vortigern and Rowena, allegedly a newly-discovered tragedy by Shakespeare
but actually written by William Henry Ireland
, opened under Richard Brinsley Sheridan
's management at Drury Lane
.
