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
.
