Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
Quarterly 35 (1927): 317
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Textual Production | Charlotte Brooke | |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | |
Textual Production | Catherine Gore | This play was written in a bid to win a prize of £500 in a contest, sponsored by Benjamin Webster
of the Haymarket
, for the best modern comedy illustrative of British manners. Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, pp. 54-74. 55 |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | |
Textual Features | Matilda Hays | Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson
, Longfellow
(used... |
Publishing | Mary Russell Mitford | Charles Kemble
wrote to MRM
(whose tragedy Charles the First had just been censored by the Lord Chamberlain) declining to produce her Foscari. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 53-4 |
Publishing | Mary Russell Mitford | From August 1823 MRM
was planning a grand historical tragedy on the greatest subject in English story—Charles and Cromwell. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 16 |
Publishing | Mary Russell Mitford | Mitford was planning this tragedy by March 1827, though she said she had not yet drafted as much as ten lines. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 68-70 |
Publishing | Isabel Hill | The play was submitted gratuitously to Charles Kemble
for fund-raising to avert the theatre's closure. It was the first of IH
's dramas to be performed, and ran for twelve nights. The lead role of... |
Publishing | Isabel Hill | She had submitted it for production to Charles Kemble
, but although he and W. C. Macready
both thought highly of it, he did not accept it for the theatre. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Maria Theresa Kemble | MTK
played Lady Elizabeth Freelove (opposite her husband
) in her comic interlude The Day After the Wedding; or, a Wife's First Lesson, at Covent Garden
. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Performance of text | Felicia Hemans | FH
's The Vespers of Palermo was produced at London's Covent Garden
theatre with Charles Kemble
in the lead role; it was published the same year. Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 70 Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 277 Hemans, Felicia. The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray. |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | FK
, not yet twenty, made a triumphant Covent Garden Theatre
debut as Shakespeare
's Juliet, saving her father
's company from bankruptcy. 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. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 42-3 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | FK
and her father
embarked on an extensive money-making theatrical tour of the British Isles. Scullion, Adrienne, editor. Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Century. J. M. Dent; C. E. Tuttle. lxiv |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | She gave the substantial profits from this successful tour to her father
when he returned to Britain following her marriage. Scullion, Adrienne, editor. Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Century. J. M. Dent; C. E. Tuttle. lxv |
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