Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Charlotte Lennox | This seems to have been the first of her few and scattered stage appearances. She played at Richmond in 1748 and at the Little Theatre, Haymarket
, as Almeria, heroine of Congreve
's The Mourning... |
| Occupation | Sarah Gardner | Sarah Cheney (later SG
) made her first appearance on the London stage, before her marriage, as Congreve
's Miss Prue in Love for Love: A Comedy at Drury Lane
. |
| Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | The play was a success with London audiences and critics. In The Observer, Kenneth Tynan
claimed that the West End Theatre justified its existence with this production of the finest artificial comedy to have... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | This was CT
's greatest success. The young George Farquhar
much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon
. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 406-7 |
| Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | This novel made the best-seller list the month after publication; but at the end of the year it received the Bookseller's Glass Slipper award for books whose sales had not reflected their quality. Reviewers... |
| Literary responses | Frances, Lady Norton | The reception of this volume, dictated by Gethin's position as her father's only child and heir, and as an exemplary pattern of female excellence, rather than by consideration of the literary quality of her work... |
| Literary responses | Mary Pix | MP
, again with Trotter
, was attacked in Animadversions on Mr. Congreve
's Late Answer to Mr. Collier, probably by George Powell
. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 413 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Beer | This poem's subject is the love-affair of Semele with Jove. Semele wished to see Jove in his true, not assumed form; when he complied and appeared as godhead she was burned to death in his... |
| 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 | Eavan Boland | It does include a fragment from verse play, Femininity and Freedom. It concludes with two poems about the peace process in Northern Ireland. The last, Irish Poetry, written for Michael Hartnett
... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bury | Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve
beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair. Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint. 189 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Trotter | She had been working on it for two years, and saw it as an attempt to reform the stage. Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang. 49, 61 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Trotter | The negative influence of CT
's marriage on her career was very considerable. Years later, in a letter significantly addressed to the greatest writer of the age (that is Alexander Pope
), which it seems... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | B. M. Croker | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas |
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