Samuel French

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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
Textual Production George Paston
This popular play saw two West End revivals the following year. First it had thirty-nine performances at His Majesty's Theatre alongside Bernard Shaw 's The Admirable Bashville, and this was followed by ninety-eight performances...
Textual Production George Paston
The production transferred to Wyndham's in February to complete its run of 135 performances. It 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.
10.7
Textual Production George Paston
The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton 's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League
Textual Production George Paston
It was published by Samuel French in 1919.
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.
14n6
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.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
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...
Textual Production Jennifer Johnston
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 .
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.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 Pam Gems
Eighteen months later the production transferred to London's Comedy Theatre . Samuel French published the text in 1987.
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.
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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Baker
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.

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Texts

Storm, Lesley. Black Chiffon. Samuel French, 1951.
Storm, Lesley. Look, No Hands!. Samuel French, 1972.
Storm, Lesley. The Day’s Mischief. Samuel French, 1952.
Storm, Lesley. The Long Echo. Samuel French, 1957.
Storm, Lesley. The Paper Hat. Samuel French, 1966.
Storm, Lesley. Tony Draws a Horse. Samuel French, 1939.
Weldon, Fay. Action Replay. Samuel French, 1980.
Weldon, Fay. I Love My Love. Samuel French, 1984.
White, Antonia. Three in a Room. Samuel French, 1947.