Richard Brinsley Sheridan

NM 's mother played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White and a shirt...

This strikingly inventive and ingenious tale seems to owe a good deal to Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein (though Shelley receives no tribute in passing, as do R. B. Sheridan , Byron , and especially Scott

EBL gives a different interpretation to Mrs Ross's phrase the balance of comfort, balancing (here and in later novels) the single against the married life. The title-page quotes five prose maxims from one Harris...

SL published a ballad, A Hermit's Tale, dedicated to Richard Brinsley Sheridan .

Caroline Ponsonby (later LCL ) was only three when the scandal erupted over her mother 's affair with the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; a couple of months later Caroline's father launched divorce proceedings.

Mary Russell Mitford was another who knew FK well even apart from their connection through the theatre. Other friends from this period or soon afterwards included the future poet and novelist Caroline Norton

The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel...

One stage part she hated playing was one of those foul-mouthed and golden-hearted old women, who drink, swear, steal, and in fact do everything but murder, and yet retain hearts as pure as the driven...

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 .

GH apparently rewrote the plot of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's School for Scandal in her next Regency romance, April Lady.

This play succeeded on stage in the teeth of a cabal against it. The Critical Review gave a somewhat mixed message, saying the play would have been thought excellent if only that wicked wit, Sheridan

Yet she also approves the theatre as the School of Wisdom and Morality. Even Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's School for Scandal is pronounced excellent, despite its ridiculing of sentimental virtue. Green warns against...

CG published a novel entitled The Dowager; or, The New School for Scandal (a subtitle referring to Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's well-known comedy).

This novel was edited, with her initials, by Lady Charlotte Bury ; she disclaimed the political opinions of the narrator, or any first-hand knowledge of the material, since, she said, it dealt with a period...

A musical drama by PG was accepted for production, but then lost, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , new manager of Drury Lane Theatre .