Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908.
Charles James Mathews
Standard Name: Mathews, Charles James
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | This date is given in the International Genealogical Index. Anne Mathews in her memoirs gives a date of November that year, oddly since that puts the wedding only a month before the birth of... |
| Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Charles Mathews
, later a well-known actor, accompanied them abroad. His wife
and son
(not his first wife, the writer Eliza Kirkham Mathews
) were also friends of Lady Blessington. |
| Friends, Associates | Dinah Mulock Craik | In London, the young Dinah Mulock was able to attend the theatre regularly, thanks to the offer of a private Covent Garden Theatre
box for her family from Charles James Mathews
and his wife... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | The Times review was magisterially condescending: it admitted that nobody could be stern enough to resist the [t]rifling and absurd . . . practical jokes Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1 - 34. 24 |
| Reception | Catherine Gore | Quid Pro Quo proved as controversial in production as in competition. Madame Vestris
, Charles Mathews
, and Anne Jackson Mathews
refused to play the parts assigned them and substitutes had to be found. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1 - 34. 25-6, 28 |
Timeline
6 December 1830
Lucia Vestris
became the first long-term female theatre manager of the century, when she reopened the Olympic Theatre
.
March 1841
The young Dionysius Lardner Boucicault
's London Assurance was staged at Covent Garden
by Charles James Mathews
and Madame Vestris
.