Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North, 2009.
102-3
Publishing
Amy Levy
Published with Samuel French
in 1883, it had an extended life when anthologised in 1898 in French's Fairy Plays for Home Production.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
14n6
Publishing
Muriel Box
In financial panic at the outbreak of the Second World War, Muriel and Sydney Box
sold the copyright in practically all the plays we had written to date to Samuel French, Ltd. for a thousand...
Publishing
Harold Pinter
Faber
printed the two plays together this year; Samuel French
issued an edition of Celebration alone in 2002.
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.
Publishing
Kate Parry Frye
The play was published in French's Acting Edition in London and New York.
Frye, Kate Parry. “Introduction”. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary, edited by Elizabeth Crawford, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013, pp. 9-34.
215
Samuel French
had bought the script more than a year earlier for ten pounds.
Crawford, Elizabeth, and Kate Parry Frye. The Great War: The People’s Story—Kate Parry Frye: The Long Life of an Edwardian Actress and Suffragette. ITV, 2014.
No records of performances have been found.
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
This was re-issued by, among other publishers, the Peoples Book Club
in Chicago (undated but probably in the original year of publication) and by Samuel French
in March 1991.
CS
had moved smoothly from writing one-act plays for the Cotswold Players
to writing them for the first, Chelsea, incarnation of the Greenleaf Players. She wrote a number of plays for performance by the...
Reception
F. Tennyson Jesse
Billeted was a great hit with wartime audiences, running for over two hundred performances. FTJ
deemed it a very light comedy.
qtd. in
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984.
101
It appeared in print in 1920 as one of French
's Standard Library series.
Sidgwick and Jackson
published Miss Tassey in 1913. Cupid in Clapham did not appear in print until several years later, in French
's series One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, 1927.
Textual Production
Madeleine Lucette Ryley
After having what Forbes-Robertson
called so much success in Manchester the production went to London, where on 27 January 1902 it opened at the Lyric Theatre
.
Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007.
79, 97
Although the production officially closed...
Textual Production
Molly Keane
An acting edition was published by Samuel French
that year.
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.
Its failure was ascribed to coincidence in timing with John Osborne
's highly successful kitchen-sink play Look Back in Anger. That had in fact...
1957: Dulcie Gray launched her publishing career:...
Women writers item
1957
Dulcie Gray
launched her publishing career: Samuel French
issued her play Love Affair (which had been staged the previous year) and the first of her murder mysteries, Murder on the Stairs, also appeared.
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, 1990.
1958: Elaine Morgan's one-act play The Waiting-Room...