JOH
's speeches and interviews regularly deal with literature. In an interview with William Archer
, she admits to admiring Arthur Wing Pinero
's characterisation of women, while noting how little individualised are some of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Ada Leverson
This dialogue brings together several fictional characters, including Wilde
's Salome, Ibsen
's Nora, Pinero
's Mrs Tanqueray, and Madame Santuzza from Mascagni
's opera Cavalleria Rusticana.
Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973.
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Literary responses
Marie Belloc Lowndes
What Really Happened, as a play, was considered in the Times Literary Supplement on 23 June 1932 by a reviewer who complained of authors turning out plays in the spirit of buying a ticket...
Occupation
Kate Parry Frye
After seeing Pinero
's Trelawney of the Wells, KPF
recorded in her diary her longing, if only she had talent, to have a try at the one profession I love the best—going on...
Timeline
13 March 1895: Arthur Wing Pinero's New Woman play The Notorious...
Writing climate item
13 March 1895
Arthur Wing Pinero
's New Woman play The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith opened at the Garrick Theatre
in London.
Chothia, Jean, editor. The New Woman and Other Emancipated Woman Plays. Oxford University Press, 1998.
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10 December 1908: The inaugural meeting of the Actresses' Franchise...