Joseph Jekyll

Standard Name: Jekyll, Joseph,, MP

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
Elizabeth (Berkeley), Lady Craven (later Margravine of Anspach), defied social convention by having her comedyThe Miniature Picture (Larpent MS 525) acted at Drury Lane , with a prologue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , and...
Textual Production Maria Riddell
Fifteen-year-old Maria Woodley (later Riddell) was a confident enough occasional poet to engage in jousting in verse in reply to a compliment from the thirtyish Joseph Jekyll ,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
flirtatiously declining his proffer of love.
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
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Timeline

By September 1782: The Letters of the black Londoner Ignatius...

Writing climate item

By September 1782

The Letters of the black Londoner Ignatius Sancho were published two years after the author's death.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
52 (1782): 437
Carey, Brycchan. “’The extraordinary Negro’: Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-14.
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Carey, Brycchan. “’The extraordinary Negro’: Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-14.
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Texts

Sancho, Ignatius, and Joseph, MP Jekyll. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. Printed by J. Nichols and sold by J. Dodsley, 1782, 2 vols.