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Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Walker | Her father, John Sadler
, was a well-to-do druggist and tobacconist who came from Stratford upon Avon. His grandfather was probably at school with Shakespeare
, and he himself was connected by marriage with... |
Textual Production | Lucy Walford | In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW
records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge
's The Little Duke, works... |
Textual Production | Helen Waddell | HW
provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall
's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press
of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury
's Shakespeare, 1934. |
Literary responses | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Overall, however, The Gadfly was a success to a degree that not one of ELV
's subsequent novels could achieve. Garlick, Barbara. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Editor Mitchell, Sally, Garland Publishing, Inc., p. 837. 837 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | In a letter to Dorothy Brett
, Mansfield wrote: The point about [Elizabeth] is that one loves her and is proud of her. Oh, that's so important! To be proud of the person one loves... |
Leisure and Society | Queen Victoria | As to the drama, QV
thought the works of William Shakespeare
to be very coarse. Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin. 111 |
Textual Production | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
was the second most prolific contributor (after Porden herself) to Eleanor Anne Porden
's Attic Chest during the years of its flourishing, 1808-15. Porden followed the model of Anna, Lady Miller
's Batheaston Vase... |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | |
Education | Alison Uttley | It hurt her pride that she made the scholarship list only after someone else had declined. She travelled daily by milk cart and milk train to this old-fashioned, rigorous school where teachers routinely used ridicule... |
Publishing | Alison Uttley | From the time she moved south, her output was staggering. Between 1942 and 1945, she published fifteen prose books and a play, as well as placing articles and making broadcasts. In autumn 1944, she began... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Maria Tucker | Her pupils (all boys) were said to love the songs and plays she wrote for them. One of the plays was The Bee and the Butterfly; one of the songs went What is it... |
Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | CT
's dedication sets out her own literary and dramatic models: Shakespeare
, Dryden
, Otway
, and Nathaniel Lee
. Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang. 87 |
Textual Production | Frances Eleanor Trollope | FET
published a novel about spiritualism, Black Spirits and White. The title is quoted from an incantatory lyric which is better remembered than its provenance. It occurs in Sir William Davenant
's version of... |
Education | Melesina Trench | Her successive years with different guardians account for the apparent inconsistency in her comments about her education. In maturity she named her favourite youthful reading as Shakespeare
, Molière
, and Sterne
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Melesina Trench | Particular sketches include an allegory sent to Mary Leadbeater entitled The Birth of Calumny Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn. 162-4 |
Timeline
7 June 1810: William Charles Macready (son of an actress...
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7 June 1810
William Charles Macready
(son of an actress and an actor-manager) began his successful acting career as Romeo in a performance in Birmingham; he became a specialist in Shakespeare
an roles.
August 1811: Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review...
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August 1811
Francis Jeffrey
wrote in the Edinburgh Review that for real force and originality of genius the age of Shakespeare
outranked various other famous ages in cultural history, including the Augustan.
1818: William Hazlitt published A View of the English...
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1818
William Hazlitt
published A View of the English Stage.
By April 1818: Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare,...
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By April 1818
Thomas Bowdler
published The Family Shakespeare, in fact a further extension of a project begun by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler
.
1835: Helen Faucit made her first important acting...
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1835
Helen Faucit
made her first important acting appearance at the Covent Garden
Theatre, aged eighteen.
1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...
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1861
A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...
1864: Henry George Bohn published A Bibliographical...
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1864
Henry George Bohn
published A Bibliographical Account of the Works of Shakespeare.
1870: Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem...
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1870
Artist Richard Doyle
published, with a poem by William Allingham
, a collection of exquisitely detailed and coloured plates called In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World.
By 12 June 1880: Irish writer Nina Kennard published the first...
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By 12 June 1880
Irish writer Nina Kennard
published the first of her rather wooden novels, There's Rue for You.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
1885: Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady...
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1885
Actress Helen Faucit
(who had become Lady Martin when her husband was knighted in 1880) published On Some of Shakespeare
's Female Characters, a collection of essays that first appeared in Blackwood's.
1893: Vale Press was founded as a printing house...
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1893
Vale Press
was founded as a printing house in Chelsea, London, by Charles De Sousy Ricketts
; its first two books were published by John Lane
.
6 June 1904: A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head...
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6 June 1904
A. H. Bullen
founded the Shakespeare Head Press
at 21 Chapel Street, Stratford upon Avon, two doors away from New Place, Stratford upon Avon, the house which Shakespeare
bought in 1597.
1906: Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a...
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1906
Tolstoy
on Shakespeare, which included a translation of Tolstoy
by Isabella Fyvie Mayo
as I. F. M., and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov
as V. Tchertkoff (as well as an essay by George Bernard Shaw
), was published.
February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...
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February 1906
Publisher J. M. Dent
launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint
1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus
, Shakespeare
, Jane Austen
practically complete, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell.
169
19 May 1908: A campaign to establish a National Theatre...
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19 May 1908
A campaign to establish a National Theatre
began with a mass meeting at the Lyceum Theatre
, London.
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