Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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Publishing | Charlotte Smith | 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... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | |
Publishing | Henrietta Battier | She hoped to get a volume of her collected poems published while she was in London in 1784, and enlisted the aid of Samuel Johnson. Johnson
offered positive encouragement (assuring her he had often been... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | She was working on a farce again in December 1779, and a year after that she submitted another one, on the topic of polygamy, to Harris
, who rejected it. Yet another farce, The Ancient... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
anonymously submitted The Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon, to Colman
in March 1784. He paid her 100 guineas for it, having asked for and got some revisions. It was at... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | It appeared, four months after she submitted it to Colman
, and ran for ten days. EI
played a small role, Selina, and at one point dried up completely on stage. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 31-2 |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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