Morton, Richard Everett. “Review of Frank Felsenstein, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>English Trader, Indian Maid</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
13
, No. 1, pp. 86-8. 87
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Wealth and Poverty | Anna Williams | This meant that she received the night's profits after the theatre covered its expenses: friends made a special effort to attend or to buy tickets for others. Johnson enlisted in the cause Elizabeth Carter
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Gardner | SG
relates a classic story of blaming the victim, in which Colman
, apparently unwilling to entertain the idea that one of his minor performers might have written something of value to him as well... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Haswell Rowson | In this humorous poem the author draws on her first-hand knowledge, as an actor and singer, with the London stage. She marshals thirty-four of it actors and writers to appear before Apollo, who metes out... |
Textual Production | Sarah Gardner | SG
wrote and kept a detailed account of her dealings with George Colman
over staging The Matrimonial Advertisement, which her manuscript sets out like a preface to a play in print, or like the... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | Its full title was The Barber of Seville; or, The Useless Precaution, A Comedy in Four Acts. It was never performed, probably because of a rival translation by George Colman
, as The Spanish... |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | These poems relate or embroider on a tale of interracial lovers whose original source is a bare paragraph in Richard Ligon
's History of Barbados, 1657. Morton, Richard Everett. “Review of Frank Felsenstein, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>English Trader, Indian Maid</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 13 , No. 1, pp. 86-8. 87 |
Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | In Garrick
's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman
. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35. 24 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | |
Textual Features | Catherine Gore | CG
calls Quid Pro Quoa bustling play of the Farquhar
, or George Colman
school. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 28 |
Textual Features | Mariana Starke | In her preface MS
makes fun of rumours that were circulating about her identity—that she was a grocer's daughter, or an adventuress, or a mother of six starving children. She concludes, however, that it is... |
Textual Features | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Steven Epley
finds Eumea reminiscent of the native woman betrayed in Inkle and Yarico, and that the Irishman is used, like Trudge in Colman
's version of that story, to demonstrate the superiority of... |
Reception | Sarah Gardner | George Colman
pursued his enmity against SG
for almost twenty years, twice staging at the Haymarket Theatre
farces in mockery of women dramatists which aim at her, and for each of which he was able... |
Reception | Mary Masters | MM
's friendship with Johnson laid her open to suspicion that he had revised and polished her poems. But this work was praised in the Gentleman's Magazine. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 25 (1755) 190-1 |
Publishing | Sarah Gardner | SG
submitted to George Colman
, new manager of the Haymarket Theatre
, her three-act comedy The Matrimonial Advertisement, or A Bold Stroke for a Husband. In her manuscript, SG
uses The Matrimonial Advertisement... |
Publishing | Sophia Lee |