Frederick Reynolds

LS published her scandalous Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, late Wells . . . Written by Herself. Including Her Correspondence with Major Topham , Mr. Reynolds , &c ., a life-story dedicated...

According to the highly popular playwright Frederick Reynolds , he had a four-year liaison with Mary Wells (later LS ) which began with her making advances to him while she was still with Topham and...

Most important among her various lovers was the minor writer Edward Topham , with whom her relationship approached a common-law marriage. (He had been briefly the lover of Mary Robinson .) LS says that Topham's...

Through Topham she became friendly with Frederick Reynolds (who became her lover and wrote of her in his Life and Times, published a few years before her death) and Robert Merry , and through...

The Critical Review, oddly, thought the play lacked comedy and had succeeded on stage because of its morality. It judged it a highly creditable first attempt, and hoped that MC would one day or...

Frederick Reynolds , by his own account the lover of Mary Wells (later LS ) for four years, mentions finding an old commonplace-book of hers years after their affair, about the time that she published...