Escott, Angela, and Isobel Grundy. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. 24 Oct. 2002.
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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Publishing | Hannah Cowley | It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular. |
Reception | George Orwell | This book too has achieved iconic status. It is probably more responsible than Animal Farm for the establishment of the adjective Orwellian in the English language to signify much that Orwell particularly detested and attacked... |
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, 2000. 49 |
Residence | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
marked her return from Paris with a triumphal appearance at Covent Garden Opera House
in London. Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996. 76-7 |
Textual Production | Susan Ferrier | Though her authorship of Marriage had become to some extent known, she insisted on publishing her second novel anonymously, writing to her sister that she could not bear the fuss of authorism! qtd. in Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne, 1984. 68 |
Textual Production | Frances Burney | Thomas Harris
, manager of Covent Garden Theatre
, informed FB
's brother Charles
that he planned to stage her comedy Love and Fashion in March 1800. Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering, 1995, 2 vols. 1: 105 |
Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | The White Pilgrim; or, Castle of Olival, published, with SSW
's name, as translated from the popular French novel, Le Pelerin Blanc (by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt
), no doubt stemmed in actuality from... |
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 |
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... |
Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | HC
soon became a woman of the theatre. She wrote prologues and epilogues for others, and contributed a scene to Charles Dibdin
's pantomime The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller, which opened at Covent Garden |
Textual Production | Ruth Fainlight | During the 1990s RF
wrote three opera libretti. First, composer Erika Fox
, commissioned by Covent Garden Opera House
for their series The Garden Venture, invited Fainlight to provide a chamber opera libretto, and... |
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