Weaver, John Reginald Homer, editor. The Dictionary of National Biography, Fourth Supplement, 1922-1930. Oxford University Press, H. Milford.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Frances Arabella Rowden | Her book did well. Many clergy, many parents of girls in the Hans Place school, many relations of the author and of her dedicatee subscribed, plus Elizabeth Gunning
, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, and Sarah Trimmer |
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. |
Textual Features | Frances Sheridan | Widowed and left destitute, Sidney is rescued by the rich Ned Warner, who has first tested her generosity and compassion by pretending to be poor (an episode plagiarised by FS
's son
in The School... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sheridan | Sidney Bidulph was also influential. It helped shape the depiction of unhappy marriage in Lennox
's Euphemia. Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 204 |
Publishing | Frances Sheridan | Garrick disparaged the play, and apparently on account of FS
's gender he used Mrs Victor
(wife of his treasurer, who had formerly worked for Thomas Sheridan) as his intermediary for communication with her. In... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sheridan | Garrick
's reply did not take up Sheridan's points about the play's content. Instead he feigned comic alarm at a challenge from a lady, and defended his own managerial practice with lavish use of the... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | While working for the Featherstones, Sydney Owenson met Thomas Moore
at a party given above his parents' grocery shop in Aungier Street, Dublin. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 46 |
Literary Setting | Charlotte Maria Tucker | This, one of her most lively and engaging children's books, features a main character named Ratto, who wanders through the world from London to Russia, eventually joining up with a rat-hero named Whiskerandos. This... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucy Walford | In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW
records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge
's The Little Duke, works... |
Publishing | Ann Yearsley | As early as March-April 1788 AY
's backers Eliza Dawson
and Wilmer Gossip
were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at... |
Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | The poem is dedicated by their sincere admirer, the author, to those, whose dramatic excellence suggested it. Young, Mary Julia. Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches. H. D. Symonds and J. Gray. 1792, prelims |
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