George Colman

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 ...

Several shorter poems by CT are known today only from their inclusion in George Colman 's and Bonnell Thornton 's anthology Poems by Eminent Ladies in its edition of 1757. This suggests that other...

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...

Encouraged by her friendship with the theatrical patron and amateur performer Henrietta O'Neill , CS had long thought about writing for the stage. She had written to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , in 1795 about...

In Garrick 's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman . It ran for only three nights, though after the first performance FS hastily rewrote passages in act four. The meagre single...

She, with her husband and half a dozen other members of the Philadelphia New Theatre had defected to this Boston theatre by November 1796. There she appeared in November and December that year in a...

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...

Charlotte Temple has received a great deal of recent critical attention. Steven Epley has discerned a possible connection with Inkle and Yarico (which he classes as folk legend). Going behind George Colman 's stage version...

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...

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. A selection was reprinted...

JM says the idea of writing a comedy was first suggested to her by Hope amid the disappointments that attended the appearance of her first novel. Again she published allusively, as the Author...

JCM 's nephew William Cowper the poet, with whom she corresponded, took an interest in her work and was probably the channel through which her poems reached the anthologists Colman and Thornton .

CL had probably begun this play immediately after the appearance of her novel Henrietta, 1759, which it reworks. Indeed, the play bore the same title as the novel when it was seen in manuscript...

SL had the idea for it while in debtors' prison with her father . Contemporary rumour said she had written it to get him out of prison; but at that time she apparently made no...

EI 's farce Young Men and Old Women, an unpublished adaptation from French, was performed on stage as afterpiece to George Colman the elder 's The Suicide.