Harper, Heather. Elizabeth Boyd, Grub Street, and patronage: a study in eighteenth century women’s writing. University of Alberta.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 |
Timeline
June 1911: Ellen Terry lectured on the topic of Shakespeare's...
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June 1911
Ellen Terry
lectured on the topic of Shakespeare
's Triumphant Women, under the auspices of the Pioneer Players
.
1913: Caroline Spurgeon became the first woman...
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1913
Caroline Spurgeon
became the first woman professor in Britain when she was named Professor of English Literature at Bedford College
.
15 February 1913: The Birmingham Repertory Theatre opened with...
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15 February 1913
December 1927: Nancy Hewins opened the first production...
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December 1927
23 April 1932: On the traditional date of Shakespeare's...
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23 April 1932
On the traditional date of Shakespeare
's birthday, the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
in Stratford upon Avon opened with a performance of Henry IV, parts I and II.
1944: The Old Vic Company began its season at New...
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1944
The Old Vic Company
began its season at New Theatre
in London with Laurence Olivier
and Ralph Richardson
in Ibsen
's Peer Gynt, Shaw
's Arms and the Man, and Shakespeare
's Richard III.
1944: Laurence Olivier directed and starred in...
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1944
Laurence Olivier
directed and starred in the film Henry V, making the most of the English patriotic feeling in Shakespeare
's original play.
1946: At the age of fifteen or sixteen, Irish-born...
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1946
At the age of fifteen or sixteen, Irish-born Catherine Gaskin
(now resident in Australia) published her first novel, This Other Eden (titled from a famous speech about England spoken by Shakespeare
's John of Gaunt).
April 1946: The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford...
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April 1946
The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
, Stratford upon Avon, was reopened by Sir Barry Jackson
with a performance of Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare
produced by Peter Brook
.
1949: Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, released the previous...
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1949
Laurence Olivier
's Hamlet,William Shakespeare
released the previous year, became the first British film to win the Oscar for best film.
1951: Theatre historian Allardyce Nicoll established...
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1951
Theatre historian Allardyce Nicoll
established the Shakespeare Institute
; it is part of Birmingham University
and is housed in Mason Croft at Stratford, formerly the home of novelist Marie Corelli
.
10 May 1951: Actress Vivien Leigh and actor Laurence Olivier...
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10 May 1951
Actress Vivien Leigh
and actor Laurence Olivier
began the season at St James's Theatre
, London, alternately playing Shaw
's Caesar and Cleopatra and Shakespeare
's Antony and Cleopatra.
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
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December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
: Peter Brook directed at Stratford upon Avon...
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Spring1970
Peter Brook
directed at Stratford upon Avon a production of Shakespeare
's Midsummer Night's Dream which redefined the possibilities of theatre.
23 April 1975: A major demonstration was held in Belgrave...
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23 April 1975
A major demonstration was held in Belgrave Square, London, in support of Public Lending Right.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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