Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White, 1883.
I: prelims
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | She dedicated it to Caroline Norton
's brother, who shared the name of his grandfather Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, and to the memory of Houstoun's own brother, John Heneage Jesse
. Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White, 1883. I: prelims |
Dedications | Sophia Lee | SL
published a ballad, A Hermit's Tale, dedicated to Richard Brinsley Sheridan
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 63 (1787): 220 |
Education | Mary Boyle | MB
was taught by governesses before she attended school. She attributed her love of theatre to her governess, Miss Richardson (Lizzie Dixie
), whose father had been the co-lessee, with Richard Brinsley Sheridan
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | Tom Sheridan
, CN
's father, son of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, bore the same name as his famous eighteenth-century grandfather, the actor, and great-grandfather, the clergyman and schoolmaster. He had been an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | Caroline was brought up on stories of her grandfather Richard Brinsley Sheridan
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Blackwood | Through her father, CB
was descended from the writer Frances Sheridan
, though the Sheridan blood was thought of in the family as bad blood, and CB
's biographer seems to associate it solely... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Sheridan | FS
's third child, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(born 30 October 1751), was still very young when he became a playwright, a theatre manager, and the most famous member of the family. Weaver, John Reginald Homer, editor. The Dictionary of National Biography, Fourth Supplement, 1922-1930. Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1937. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Newspapers spread, apparently at publisher John Maxwell
's behest, the story that he and MEB
had recently married; this rumour was soon discredited when his wife's family publicly protested. His wife's brother-in-law, Richard Brinsley Knowles |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rhoda Broughton | The Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu
was RB
's uncle by marriage. Himself a grandson of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
and great-grandson of Frances Sheridan
, he had married Broughton's mother's sister (who was born Susanna Bennett |
Family and Intimate relationships | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | SFG
had two daughters or adopted daughters, Pamela
(named after Richardson
's fictional heroine) and Hermine. Pamela later married an Irish patriot, becoming Lady Edward Fitzgerald
. The question of her parentage, and indeed her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
Fictionalization | Anna Miller | |
Friends, Associates | Lady Anne Barnard | Lady Anne lived much of her life in fashionable society, and her acquaintance was very wide. In Edinburgh in her early twenties she impressed and delighted Samuel Johnson
with an impromptu and complimentary bon mot... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | When Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, died, Lady Elizabeth was left in a quandary as to what her own status would be at Devonshire House for the future: whether she would have to find a new... |