William Henry Ireland

Standard Name: Ireland, William Henry

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Mrs F. C. Patrick
She must have been well educated. She has a good grasp of history and politics, and of canonical English fiction from Richardson to her own most respected immediate female predecessors. She took a wry interest...
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs F. C. Patrick
MFCP 's title-page quotes Aulus Gellius . Her preface claims that she is merely editing an authentic manuscript, and that the preface is her only original contribution to the book. She also claims to have...

Timeline

2 April 1796: Vortigern and Rowena, allegedly a newly-discovered...

Writing climate item

2 April 1796

Vortigern and Rowena, allegedly a newly-discovered tragedy by Shakespeare but actually written by William Henry Ireland , opened under Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's management at Drury Lane .
“William Henry Ireland and the Shakespeare Fabrications”. University of Delaware Library: Special Collections Department: Exhibitions and Publications: Special Collections Exhibitions 1995 - 2001: Forging a Collection: the Frank W. Tober Collection on Literary Forgery.

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