William Congreve

The title page quotes Congreve . The story of Charles Benfield's early life and courtship precedes his death, which leaves his widowed Maria to bring up five children, feeling abject and paralysed (characteristics which become...

The prologue maintains that good men are still there to be found; the epilogue says wit is extinct in the male line and survives in ladies only. The play has an old-fashioned flavour of Congreve

EI 's two-act farce The Hue and Cry appeared as an afterpiece to Congreve 's Love for Love in 1791, but was never performed again.

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...

ML was sometimes taken to the theatre as a child, which she loved. The first play she ever saw was Congreve 's tragedy The Mourning Bride, with a Harlequin pantomime to follow. She once...

Another followed an upsetting review of Charles's Specimens in the Quarterly in February 1812, another on her completing her own On Needle-Work in December 1814-February 1815, and another, unusually, only six months later.

CL acted Almeria in Congreve 's The Mourning Bride at the Haymarket ; the performance was a benefit night for her.

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...

She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...

The title-page has a couplet from Congreve about the reward of virtue.

Lady Mary claimed that at every stage of her life she picked a few intimate friends and cared little for the opinions of anyone else. She always retained the highest opinion of her father's and...

Throughout the 1720 LMWM regularly responded in poetry to events in her social circle. She wrote on an alleged incident of attempted rape; on the deaths of the Duke of Marlborough , William Congreve ...

MP 's wide circle of friends included her fellow female playwrights Delarivier Manley , Catharine Trotter , and Susanna Centlivre , as well as the poet Sarah Fyge and actresses Elizabeth Barry and Susannah Verbruggen

It was published the same year. The British Library copy (841 e. 6) bears a contemporary note of MP 's name. The prologue (probably by Congreve , though given anonymously) implies that...

MP , again with Trotter , was attacked in Animadversions on Mr. Congreve 's Late Answer to Mr. Collier, probably by George Powell .