Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North.
102-3
Publishing
Constance Smedley
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...
Publishing
Githa Sowerby
It ran for sixty-three performances, and was published by Samuel French
in 1913.
Harben, Niloufer. Twentieth-Century English History Plays: from Shaw to Bond. Macmillan.
93
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.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
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.
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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, 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.
No records of performances have been found.
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.
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
101
It appeared in print in 1920 as one of French
's Standard Library series.
The play was printed by Samuel French
as George Geith; or, Romance of a City Life, A Drama in four acts and a tableau, 1880. Reeve and his leading lady, Ada Lester
, toured...
Textual Production
Pam Gems
Eighteen months later the production transferred to London's Comedy Theatre
. Samuel French
published the text in 1987.
Textual Production
Harriett Jay
This did even better than most of their joint plays, clocking up their longest consecutive run (256 performances).
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.
By early 1897 HJ
transformed it into a novel (her final work of fiction) under the same...
Textual Production
Dodie Smith
DS
once again had trouble placing her next plays, That Which Hath Been, set in a monastery, and Amateur Means Lover, set in a Camden Town rooming house. The latter was eventually performed...
Timeline
1957: Dulcie Gray launched her publishing career:...
Women writers item
1957
Dulcie Gray
launched her publishing career: Samuel French
issued her playLove Affair (which had been staged the previous year) and the first of her murder mysteries, Murder on the Stairs, also appeared.
1958: Elaine Morgan's one-act play The Waiting-Room...