Mahotière, Mary de la. Hannah Cowley, Tiverton’s Playwright and Pioneer Feminist (1743-1809). Devon Books, 1997.
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John Gay
Standard Name: Gay, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cowley | Not much is known about her mother, born Hannah Richards, who was a cousin of John Gay
and who married HC
's father in 1742. |
| Friends, Associates | Grisell Murray | At almost every stage of GM
's life, her family had the habit of spending part of their time at their London house, where she evidently moved in literary as well as fashionable circles. She... |
| Friends, Associates | Alexander Pope | During these few months Pope
, Swift
, Gay
, and others met regularly as a brilliant, informal, all-male club in London for fun, jokes, and literary projects; they called themselves the Scriblerus Club. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985. |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | At this time LMWM
met and established friendships with writers, artists, and people of learning: Pope
, Gay
, Charles Jervas
, and the Venetian philosophe Antonio Conti
. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hands | EH
's pastorals include some touching love-stories, but they also regularly reverse the gender situations traditional to the genre. It is pairs of nymphs (not pairs of shepherds) who are alike ambitious to excel in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Herberts | This tale is not continuous, but distributed in sections throughout the book. The romance couples make periodic contact with the Countess Brillante, a woman writer about whom Herbert's attitude is typically protean and hard to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | E. B. C. Jones | This is a story of the difficult or tormented love-affairs of sensitive young people trying to construct their new and modern world. (Intellectually, they seek to reach back past the nineteenth century towards the eighteenth... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Leapor | To test the waters Freeman selected from among ML
's poems those which were less likely to give offence by their class attitudes. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , 1991, pp. 313-43. 321-3 |
| Literary Setting | Emma Tennant | Her heroine, based on herself aged fifteen onwards, is a red-haired debutante from Scotland, progressing from a seedy finishing school to being launched on the London season, an environment full of seducers and conmen where... |
| Occupation | Leah Sumbel | She received rave reviews for this first appearance, as Mrs Cadwallader in The Author (a burlesque portrayal of a woman writer). Later that summer she swashbuckled as Macheath in a famous transvestite production of Gay |
| Occupation | Charlotte Charke | CC
, at Henry Fielding
's Haymarket Theatre
, appeared in male roles: as Macheath (John Gay
), Falstaff (Shakespeare
), George Barnwell (George Lillo
), and Lothario (Nicholas Rowe
). The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 3: 402ff |
| Occupation | Edmund Curll | Commentators seem unanimously to have believed Pope
's pamphlet claim that he dosed Curll with an emetic to punish him for illicitly publishing Court Poems on 26 March 1716—though since Pope also claimed to have... |
| Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
| Performance of text | Alexander Pope | John Gay
, AP
, and John Arbuthnot
's farce Three Hours After Marriage was first staged; it was published anonymously the same month. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: 431 Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot, 3 vols. |
Timeline
January 1716: John Gay published Trivia; or, The Art of...
Writing climate item
January 1716
John Gay
published Trivia; or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London.
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.
20 January 1724: Elizabeth Harrison wrote for publication,...
Women writers item
20 January 1724
Elizabeth Harrison
wrote for publication, with her name, A Letter to Mr. John Gay
, On his Tragedy, call'd The Captives. To which is annex'd a copy of verses to the Princess.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
By June 1727: John Gay published his first series of F...
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By June 1727
John Gay
published his first series of Fables.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
1728: Ephraim Chambers attempted in his Cyclopaedia...
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1728
Ephraim Chambers
attempted in his Cyclopaedia to offer a digest of all existing modern knowledge.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
190
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(November 1738): 582
Stavisky, Aaron. “Review of Pat Rogers, The Samuel Johnson DictionaryThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
10
, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 302-28. 302
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
29 January 1728: John Gay's The Beggar's Opera opened at Lincoln's...
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29 January 1728
John Gay
's The Beggar's Opera opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. It was published on 14 February.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 931, 956-7
A Register of Books 1728-1732, extracted from the Monthly Chronicle. Gregg Press, 1964.
54
30 March 1730: Henry Fielding's The Author's Farce opened...
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30 March 1730
Henry Fielding
's The Author's Farce opened at his Little Theatre in the Haymarket
, which was currently presenting its first season.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 3, 45
7 December 1732: John Rich opened a new theatre in Covent...
Building item
7 December 1732
John Rich
opened a new theatre in Covent Garden
, the Theatre Royal, and moved his farces and pantomimes there from the other Theatre Royal in Drury Lane
.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 229, 253-4
8 June 1829: Douglas William Jerrold's play Black-Ey'd...
Writing climate item
8 June 1829
Douglas William Jerrold
's play Black-Ey'd Susan premiered at the Surrey Theatre
in London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
333
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Texts
Gay, John et al. Three Hours After Marriage. Bernard Lintot, 1717.