Tate Wilkinson

Standard Name: Wilkinson, Tate

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Employer Elizabeth Inchbald
EI and her husband were hired by Tate Wilkinson : this was a coup, for to join his theatre company had long been their ambition.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Employer Elizabeth Inchbald
Her new contract with Tate Wilkinson was for a guinea and a half weekly (of which she found she could save one third after expenses), and her occasional benefits brought in another ten or fifteen...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's husband Joseph died suddenly at Leeds, where they were acting with Tate Wilkinson 's company.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Friends, Associates Frances Brooke
Brooke met manager Tate Wilkinson some time during the 1750s, probably after 1756. Her other friends in the theatre world included comic actor James Quin
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
10-11
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
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and the actresses Peg Woffington (1714-1760) and Mary Ann Yates
Occupation Hannah Brand
HB acted in Tate Wilkinson 's company in York. The audience, women especially, ridiculed her provincial accent and old-fashioned clothes.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Residence Ann Gomersall
At some time after her marriage AG left London and settled in the industrial town of Leeds, far from her origins. Among manufacturing towns it had a remarkably lively cultural life. Joseph Priestley had...
Residence Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The pair lived a peripatetic existence, since Charles Mathews was working for Tate Wilkinson 's touring company. They went to York after their London visit, and spent some time in Hull. Their final lodging...
Textual Production Ann Yearsley
Benefit performances brought AY about £120, even though the one at Bristol was postponed from the normal third night to the fourth.
Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
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, AMS Press, 2002, pp. 283-35.
318, 320
Eliza Dawson was keen for the play to be produced in...
Travel Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's acting career gave her a knowledge of many different parts of the British Isles. From 1772 she was in Bristol, Glasgow and Edinburgh, in 1776-7 in Liverpool and Manchester. She...

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