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Occupation | Muriel Box | MB
began running the scenario department at Gainsborough Studios
when those studios were being managed by Sydney. This job, or these jobs, left the pair of them less time for original script-writing, though script-doctoring remained... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Boyd | At some time after 1736 EB
became a member of the Shakespeare's Ladies Club
, whose activities included pressuring the theatres to stage more Shakespeare
plays. Harper, Heather. Elizabeth Boyd, Grub Street, and patronage: a study in eighteenth century women’s writing. University of Alberta. 37 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd | |
Textual Production | Mary Boyle | In the Advertisement prefacing her work, MB
professes that this is at best but a feeble attempt to illustrate a favourite subject. Boyle, Mary. The Bridal of Melcha. Henry Colburn. prelims |
Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | If biographer Jennifer Carnell
is correct, this means that she went on stage at the age of seventeen. Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press. 15 |
Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She played male parts in plays by Shakespeare
and others, not as burlesque, but as straight parts after the style of Charlotte Cushman
. At least one reviewer, in Coventry's Era, objected to... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | There are occasional moments of wit, as when destitution reveals that the family servants think terms of practical life rather than sentimental fiction: the old-fashioned type of servant, who appears so frequently in Morton
's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's Hostages to Fortune, also published in 1875, gives a more sustained view of the theatre milieu than did A Strange World. It tells the story of Herman Westray's struggle to succeed... |
Literary responses | Anne Bradstreet | |
Health | Anna Eliza Bray | In the first months of 1834 AEB
found herself again in ill-health. She lost her sight and was confined to her bedroom, where she amused herself by repeating passages from Shakespere
[sic], or inventing plots... |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | The periodical's theatre reports, provided by a little court of female criticism Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | This was one of the earliest novels of sensibility, and was probably influenced by Frances Sheridan
's Sidney Bidulph. Its sentimental content, however, co-exists both with comment on politics and with a coherent plot... |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | Brooke's advertisement to volume 3 says she gave up her plan for an essay on the writing of history, and settled instead on using notes to demonstrate how this work is, as all history ought... |
Education | Brigid Brophy | BB
's education (disrupted by the second war) included attending a state school (coeducational) and private schools both boys', girls', and mixed-sex. She was intellectually precocious at every stage. As a little girl at the... |
Textual Production | Brigid Brophy |
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