Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin.
246ff
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | One of Gardiner's great-grandfathers was the Victorian author Dionysius Lardner
, who extramaritally fathered Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, better known as playwright Dion Boucicault
. His family had strong links with the theatre. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 246ff Box, Muriel. Rebel Advocate. Victor Gollancz. 195, 201, 18ff |
Friends, Associates | Emily Faithfull | EF
's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes
, Joaquin Miller
, James Russell Lowell
, and Walt Whitman
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 183 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Baker | EB
wrote this and her later plays while in full-time employment. It and the other Court Theatre productions were put on by the Play Actors
society. Chains was revived in 1910 by Dion Boucicault
at... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
published in the Halfpenny Journal, anonymously, The Octoroon; or, The Lily of Louisiana, timed to coincide with and said to be influenced by a similarly-titled play by Boucicault
. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Octoroon; or, The Lily of Louisiana, edited by Jennifer Carnell, Sensation Press, p. vii - xvii. front matter, xiv |
Textual Features | May Laffan | The story also tangentially addresses Irish nationalism. The play that Flitters and the Counsellor attend is The Shaughraun, a melodrama by Dion Boucicault
about a Fenian fugitive. The two children cheer to the echo... |
Textual Production | Ellen Wood | Claiming to have written the story for one of the once fashionable race of Annuals, now extinct, “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (25 October 1871): 6 |