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.
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
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.
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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.
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...
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.
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It appeared in print in 1920 as one of French
's Standard Library series.
JJ
's playThe Nightingale and not the Lark (titled with a quotation from Shakespeare
's Romeo and Juliet) was published at London by Samuel French
.
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Textual Production
Molly Keane
An acting edition was published by Samuel French
and another edition by Collins
, both in 1951. It appeared the following year from Collins
, adapted to novel form.
Weekes, Ann Owens. Unveiling Treasures. Attic Press.
166
Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart, editors. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Clarendon.
285
Textual Production
Molly Keane
An acting edition was published by Samuel French
that year.
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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...
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.
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Textual Production
George Paston
Samuel French
published GP
's Stars: A Comedy, a one-act play in which a husband-and-wife acting duo battle over their reviews.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
875
Textual Production
George Paston
Annie Horniman
gave this play two successful revivals in Manchester: at the Midland Hotel Theatre
in October 1907, and at the Gaiety Theatre
in 1908, where its proceeds guaranteed the season's financial success.
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press.
164
Textual Production
George Paston
The production was a success, running for 167 performances. The play was published the same year by Samuel French
.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
875
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1910-1919. Scarecrow Press.
10.86
Textual Production
George Paston
It was revived at the same theatre on 20 March 1909, when it ran for eighty-three performances, and was published that year by Samuel French
.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
875
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1900-1909. Scarecrow Press.
9.73
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...
