The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Eliza Haywood | Popular in its day and highly regarded since, this novel sold out and went to a second edition in seven weeks. It was reprinted in London and Dublin, translated into French, German, Dutch, and... |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her... |
| Author summary | Susan Smythies | SS
published three novels during the 1750s, which show her well versed both in the modern novel created by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
, and in an older tradition of satirical and didactic fiction relying... |
| Author summary | Sarah Fielding | SF
, best known as a mid-eighteenth-century novelist, tried a range of other genres as well: history, criticism, a play, a translation, and a landmark children's book which is both a work of pedagogy and... |
| Occupation | Charlotte Charke | CC
, at Henry Fielding
's Haymarket Theatre
, appeared in male roles: as Macheath (John Gay
), Falstaff (Shakespeare
), George Barnwell (George Lillo
), and Lothario (Nicholas Rowe
). |
| Occupation | Eliza Haywood | EH
appeared on stage as a member of Henry Fielding
's company at the Little Theatre
in the Haymarket. 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. |
| Occupation | Charlotte Charke | CC
scored a personal success in Henry Fielding
's daring stage satire The Historical Register for the Year 1736, as the auctioneer Christopher Hen (modelled on the actual Christopher Cock
). Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62. 23-4 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 651 |
| Occupation | Eliza Haywood | EH
had a theatre benefit night performing in Fielding
's Historical Register for the Year 1736 and the afterpiece Eurydice Hiss'd. 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. |
| Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Fielding | The form is epistolary: not an exchange of letters but a single, retrospective letter in which the now older Ophelia looks back. The heroine, brought up in isolation in Wales by an aunt who has... |
| Literary responses | Mary Julia Young | The Critical Review (besides alleging indebtedness to Henry Fielding
) judged that both characters and story were well done, but that the ending was wildly improbable. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3 (1804): 470 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Some reviewers (who saw the novel as domestic rather than political) were not enthusiastic; the Critical claimed in a lengthy notice to be disappointed in almost every respect with this performance, and deplored the example... |
| Literary responses | Penelope Aubin | Popular fiction of PA
's type is a target of parody in Henry Fielding
's Jonathan Wild. McDowell, Paula. “Narrative Authority, Critical Complicity: The Case of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Jonathan Wild</span>”;. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 30 , No. 2, pp. 211-31. 215 |
| Literary responses | Mary Charlton | The New London Review ranked this novel much above mediocrity although over-crowded with incident. It felt that MC
had made an error of judgement in putting into the mouths of her inferior personages what it... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Minifie | The Critical belatedly noted: She is now no longer in partnership, but sets up for herself. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 50 (1780): 168 |
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