Sir John Vanbrugh

Dane recalled of her painting days (during which she was an assiduous theatre-goer in the cheap seats): There were moments when I even wondered what it would feel like to be an actress and play...

After this tirade the novel is more fun than one might anticipate. The title-page quotes Sir John Vanbrugh . The story opens with SG 's gentleman hero, Percival Ellingford, a recent convert to Methodism ...

This is a novel of courtship among upper-class characters: its title-page invokes the genre of Restoration comedy by quoting Vanbrugh —a different quotation from the one from him SG had used in 1810. But it...

AI had a house built for her at 5 New Burlington Street, London, by Nicholas Hawksmoor , former associate of her father 's architect, Vanbrugh .

Palladian presents a thick weave of literary allusions. As its title implies, this novel is set in a country house dating back to the eighteenth century. Just as the title suggests the English...

CC made her stage debut, as Madamoiselle in Vanbrugh 's Provok'd Wife, by personal request of the leading actress Anne Oldfield , and for Oldfield's benefit night.

Congreve was twenty-one when on 22 December 1691 he licensed his first book, a short novel called Incognita: or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd, which was published the following year. He moved quickly into...

David Garrick mocked the fashionable, high head-dresses worn by the women of his day by donning an extravagant fruit-and-flower head-dress to play Vanbrugh 's Sir John Brute in drag.

AI praises both her father and his estate, the baroque mansion and landscaped grounds recently completed to the designs of Sir John Vanbrugh . Carlisle appears as a practitioner of ideal gentlemanly retirement: having...