Young, Mary Julia. Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches. H. D. Symonds and J. Gray.
1792, prelims
Sir John Burgoyne
Standard Name: Burgoyne, Sir John
Used Form: General Burgoyne
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Lennox | Seventeen years after the brief, inglorious appearance of The Sister, Sir John Burgoyne
raided it for his successful comedy The Heiress, which opened at Drury Lane
on 14 January 1786. Twenty years after... |
| Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | The poem is dedicated by their sincere admirer, the author, to those, whose dramatic excellence suggested it. |
| Violence | Ann Eliza Bleecker | AEB
, whose husband
was away seeking a wartime refuge for them, fled on foot from her New York estate, Tomhanick, at the approach of the British general Burgoyne
. Bleecker, Ann Eliza. “Memoirs of Mrs. Ann Eliza Bleecker”. The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, edited by Margaretta Faugeres, Printed by T. and J. Swords, 1793, p. i - xviii. v |
Timeline
27 July 1777
Indians with General Burgoyne
's forces seized two loyalist women at Fort Edward, New York, and murdered and scalped one of them.
17 October 1777
General Burgoyne
surrendered at Saratoga, at the end of a campaign he had begun on 30 July.