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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | This satiric, self-reflexive entertainment makes minimal changes to its source, Henry Fielding
's The Tragedy of Tragedies (itself adapted from his Tom Thumb, 1730). There has been controversy over the Opera's music, which... |
| Publishing | Eliza Haywood | In England this work did not succeed in catching the success of Pamela: its copyright failed to sell in 1754 and fetched only a nominal half-guinea the next year. But in Europe it was... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths
passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of... |
| Fictionalization | Eliza Haywood | EH
's reputation during her lifetime and immediately afterwards (bolstered by Pope's image of her in the Dunciad) was of the quintessential practitioner of the novel, seen as low-grade entertainment both intellectually and morally... |
| 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. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
| Textual Features | Sarah Green | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gilding | Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Gardner | This is not a well-constructed plot, since it is low in suspense, surprise, or even action. The play progresses like a series of disconnected sketches. The mistaken identity, parental opposition, and lack of money hampering... |
| Textual Production | Julia Frankau | In JF
's Joseph in Jeopardy (whose hero's first name, mentioned in the title, seems to allude both to the Bible and to Henry Fielding
's Joseph Andrews) the hero resists seduction by a... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | SF
worked with James Harris
on a memoir, An Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding, for a projected edition of his works; but it never appeared. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xl |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Fielding | SF
's most important sibling was her brother Henry
, first as the eldest child and later as a highly successful novelist and playwright (as well as theatre manager and lawyer). She kept house for... |
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