Frances Sheridan

01 January 1724 - 26 August 1766

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.

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Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
Anthologization	Mary Julia Young	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, 1993. 33 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. Thicknesse, Ann. A Letter from Miss F—d. 1761. 29 AT 's father then tried to stop the concert...
Intertextuality and Influence	Charlotte Smith	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, 1954. 478 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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, 1992. 14 She subscribed to Elizabeth Carter 's translation of Epictetus . Of her radical friends Thomas Hollis
Intertextuality and Influence	Alethea Lewis	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...
Literary responses	Charlotte Lennox	This time Lennox had at least a moderate stage success, bringing her a welcome author's benefit night. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 4: 1928ff She became the first successful female novelist of her generation to break into theatre, as Frances Sheridan

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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.

Shevlin, Elinor. “’It is the intention of the Editor’: Griffith’s, Harrison’s, and Cooke’s collections and the making of the English novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 21 Apr. 2001.

British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.

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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.

Warner, William Beatty. Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750. University of California Press, 1998.

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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Texts

Sheridan, Frances. Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph. J. Dodsley, 1767, 2 vols.

Sheridan, Frances. Eugenia and Adelaide. C. Dilly, 1791, 2 vols.

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, 3 vols.

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 Editions, Broadview Press, 2011.

Sheridan, Frances. The Plays of Frances Sheridan. Editors Hogan, Robert and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984.