Richard Brinsley Sheridan

This time her work was able to reach the stage (for just one night) because the second wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan , manager of Drury Lane, was her relation: Hester Jane née Ogle ...

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was a composer of tunes for the voice: she contributed a song to Sheridan 's immense stage success, Pizarro.

The Duchess of Devonshire knew virtually everyone in London society. Set apart was the Devonshire House Circle: a clique of wealthy and fashionable Whigs with rakish or bohemian leanings, who even spoke in their...

The Duke of Devonshire planned to take his wife and his mistress to Spa in the summer of 1789. The prospect pleased them both for different reasons: Georgiana hoped for improved fertility from the waters...

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...

While working for the Featherstones, Sydney Owenson met Thomas Moore at a party given above his parents' grocery shop in Aungier Street, Dublin. She gained access to Ireland's bluestocking circle through Alicia or Alice Lefanu

Elizabeth (Berkeley), Lady Craven (later Margravine of Anspach), defied social convention by having her comedyThe Miniature Picture (Larpent MS 525) acted at Drury Lane , with a prologue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , and...

Baillie's preface explicitly denies that she was influenced by (even that she had read) German tragedians, while implicitly calling attention to the similarities in style and subject-matter between her work and theirs: for instance between...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

FB 's friendship with Woffington led to her meeting Peg's sister Polly , who became her lifelong friend. Eight years older than Brooke, Polly Woffington was a close friend of Samuel Johnson , Sir Joshua Reynolds

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

After the triumph of Evelina, FB 's first intention was to write for the stage. She had the encouragement of Richard Brinsley Sheridan , manager of Drury Lane Theatre , and of dramatist Arthur Murphy .