The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Textual Production | Maria Theresa Kemble | It was never published. The manuscript submitted to the censor is Larpent 1254 at the Huntington Library
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Textual Production | Mary Robinson | MR
herself sold tickets for this benefit. The songs were printed this year, though the piece itself remained unpublished. The manuscript is Larpent 447, Huntington Library
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 167 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | As Lady Craven, the future EMA
had several of her plays (light farces, pantomimes, and fables) privately performed. From the late 1770s onwards they were given for the benefit of the poor of... |
Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it... |
Textual Production | Maria Theresa Kemble | This is Larpent 1447 in the Huntington
. It remained unpublished for the time being, but in about 1835 George Daniel
of Islington printed it as by Mrs Charles Kemble, from the acting copy... |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | Dorothy Jordan
, who starred in it, set songs by MR
to music. The manuscript of the play is in the Larpent Collection at the Huntington Library
. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 13: 37 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1707 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth von Arnim | She requested that after she died, everything that might threaten the eyes and reason of the biographer be destroyed. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 313 |
Textual Production | Helen Craik | |
Textual Production | Maria Theresa Kemble | This is Larpent 1549, Huntington Library
. It was published later that year, in an American edition in 1813, and in a reprint of around 1856. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | Manuscripts of The Land and The Garden are in the Huntington Library
. The Lilly Library
at Bloomington, Indiana, has some letters and early diaries. 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. |
Textual Production | Catherine Cuthbertson | It remained unpublished; its manuscript is Larpent 969 in the Huntington Library
. The identity of this Miss Cuthbertson with the novelist is speculative. |
Textual Production | Anna Margaretta Larpent | AML
closed the diary she had kept since 1773; her last passage describes the business of disposing of the archive of play manuscripts which is now the Larpent Collection in the Huntington Library
. Larpent, Anna Margaretta. A Woman’s View of Drama. Adam Matthew. July 1830 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. |
Reception | Anne Whitehead | Apart from George Whitehead, most of the contributors were women. The first two words of this title were later used again and again on pious testimonies. The copy at the Huntington Library
has manuscript bibliographical... |
Publishing | Jane Brereton | In the body of the volume she identifies herself as Melissa. Just two copies are known of a fine-paper version. One, at the Huntington Library
, is wrongly dated 1725 (in Roman numerals). The other... |
Publishing | Ephelia | The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved... |
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