Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Sophia Lee | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | FK
's father, the actor Charles Kemble
, inherited the management of Covent Garden Theatre
in London in 1817 (at a time when it was in financial difficulties) when his brother John Philip Kemble
retired. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 7, 12 |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | She toured England, Scotland, and Ireland with the Covent Garden Theatre
company, met Walter Scott
, and was feted by Lady Morgan
in Dublin. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 54-6 |
Textual Production | Fanny Kemble | One critic argues that FK
equated her life on the stage with a kind of slavery and therefore developed a keen sympathy for those in bondage; however, the actual conditions of slavery were probably quite... |
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. |
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. |
Residence | Fanny Kemble | FK
gave an emotional farewell performance at Covent Garden before embarking on an American tour with her father and Aunt Dall
. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 49 |
Textual Production | Fanny Kemble | FK
published Francis the First: An Historical Drama in verse under her own name; it appeared in the United States as Francis the First
; a Tragedy in Five Acts, as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden |
Occupation | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
made her London stage debut, at Covent Garden
; she played the breeches role of Bellario in Fletcher
's Philaster. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 23 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 376 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
performed in both winter and summer seasons, at Covent Garden and the Little Theatre, Haymarket
(under manager George Colman
). During the season 1780-1781, the Covent Garden
theatre paid her two pounds a week... |
Performance of text | Isabel Hill | IH
's comedy The First of May was first performed, at Covent Garden Theatre
in London. Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 184 |
Publishing | Isabel Hill | Through his connections, Benson Hill had the play presented to Covent Garden Theatre
. Though the management chose not to produce the play, they provided IH
with a long letter full of encouragement and constructive... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She describes, without naming names, her friendship with a German singer of Wagnerian roles, first met when he sang Tristan at Covent Garden
in 1923. She met him nine years later in New York, found... |
Education | Elizabeth Grant | While the family resided in London, theatre-going provided another much-welcomed form of education and entertainment. EG
once attended a production of The Caravan, featuring John Kemble
, in which Carlo, the famous Newfoundland... |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's next play, Modern Honour; or, The Sharper in High Life, opened at Covent Garden
, only to prove her first unequivocal flop. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 9 |
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