Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Frances Sheridan
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Standard Name: Sheridan, Frances
Birth Name: Frances Chamberlaine
Married Name: Frances Sheridan
Pseudonym: The Editor of Sidney Bidulph
Pseudonym: The Author of the Discovery
Pseudonym: The Late Editor of the Former Part
FS
was a novelist and dramatist whose adult writing career was cut short after less than seven years. She was a leading practitioner of the eighteenth-century sentimental novel. She also wrote poetry.
An abridged version of this novel was included in an odd collection: Tales of My Landlady, compiled by William Thomas Haley
and published in 1843-4. Also included were versions of Frances Sheridan
's The...
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriette Wilson
On the journey to Newcastle HW
had begun a flirtation with the witty Tom Sheridan
(born 1775, son of the playwright, grandson of Frances Sheridan
, and father of Caroline Norton
). He and his...
Intertextuality and Influence
Helen Maria Williams
This novel re-writes Rousseau
's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloise in the sentimental style of Frances Sheridan
's Sidney Bidulph or Henry Mackenzie
's Julia de Roubigné.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon.
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The love-triangle of Williams's Julia is...
Textual Production
Sue Townsend
ST
wrote an introduction for Frances Sheridan
's novel Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, 1761, in the ground-breaking Pandora
edition, 1987.
Occupation
Ann Thicknesse
Lord Jersey
attempted to sabotage the first concert before it happened by encouraging a family member to hold a competing event on the same day.
This epistolary novel is highly political; its preface asserts a woman's right to interest in politics. The letters in it span the period from June 1790 to February 1792, tracking the events of the French...
Textual Features
Charlotte Smith
The heroine is a mysterious young widow embittered by her experience of a corrupt guardian and a dissipated husband who betrayed and deserted her. The play mocks literary generic conventions, including those that were CS
Birth
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
RBS
, son of the novelist and playwright Frances Sheridan
, and later a playwright and theatre manager himself, was born at 12 Dorset Street, Dublin.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Features
Eliza Parsons
Money issues arise early in this story. Mr Mead was curate to a small parish in Lincolnshire, and performed the whole duty within eight miles round, for the noble salary of thirty-five pounds a...
Family and Intimate relationships
Caroline Norton
She may have been less aware of her great-grand-mother on that side, novelist and playwright Frances Sheridan
. The history of women writers has been so much thrown into the shade that several sources on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Seymour Montague
The third epistle performs the conventional act of praising historical women: the monarchs Elizabeth I
and Catherine the Great
of Russia for their exercise of power, the French scholar Anne Dacier
, and eleven British...
Textual Features
Eliza Kirkham Mathews
In Anecdotes of the Clairville Family three orphan children are educated by a wise maiden aunt, while Emily Wilmont, aged seven, progresses from deception to thieving to death from despair. The book incorporates an Ode...
Friends, Associates
Catharine Macaulay
With her husband CM
lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan
after she had become a writer.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
The Sheridan quoted on the title-page is probably Frances
. AL
enjoys playing with different styles. One of the two young heroes opens the book with a long, complicated aphorism about love and obedience to...
Timeline
1780: James Harrison (hitherto chiefly known as...
Writing climate item
1780
James Harrison
(hitherto chiefly known as a music publisher) began to issue the handsomely-produced Novelists' Magazine, a weekly serial reprinting of canonical novels.
1814: John Colin Dunlop published The History of...
Writing climate item
1814
John Colin Dunlop
published The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age.
Texts
Sheridan, Frances. Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph. J. Dodsley, 1767.
Sheridan, Frances. Eugenia and Adelaide. C. Dilly, 1791.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
Townsend, Sue, and Frances Sheridan. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Pandora Press, 1987, p. ix - xi.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Sheridan, Frances. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph. R. and J. Dodsley, 1761.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, and Frances Sheridan. Sheridan’s Plays, now printed as he wrote them, and his mother’s unpublished comedy, A Journey to Bath. Editor Rae, W. Fraser, D. Nutt, 1902.
Sheridan, Frances. The Discovery. T. Davies, 1763.
Sheridan, Frances. The Dupe. A. Millar, 1764.
Sheridan, Frances. The History of Nourjahad. J. Dodsley, 1767.
Sheridan, Frances. The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph. Editors Hutner, Heidi and Nicole Garret, Broadview Press, 2011.
Sheridan, Frances. The Plays of Frances Sheridan. Editors Hogan, Robert and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984.
