Philip H. Highfill

Standard Name: Highfill, Philip H.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
death Alicia Tyndal Palmer
ATP died. She was buried on this day at Chiswick on the outskirts of London.
The Biographical Dictionary by Highfill , Burnim and Langhans wrongly gives her death-date as 1822.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
Leisure and Society Mary Robinson
As a beautiful actress MR was frequently painted by artists, who included Richard Cosway , Thomas Gainsborough , Angelica Kauffmann , Thomas Lawrence , Joshua Reynolds , and George Romney . As the prince's mistress...
names Mary Robinson
  • BirthName: Mary Darby
  • Nickname: Perdita
  • Married: Robinson
  • Pseudonyms: A Friend to Humanity; Randall, Miss; Randall, Anne Frances
    MR used at least seven romance names for publishing poetry in magazines.
    ; Laura; Laura-Maria; Julia; Daphne; Oberon...
Occupation Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Theatrical biographers Philip H. Highfill , Kalman A. Burnim , and Edward A. Langhans surmise that she was the Miss Gooch who acted at Scarborough in late 1794,
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, 1973–1993.
6: 249
but the various ways in...
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
Young mentions the restraint laid on my pen by Personages who fear'd to be mention'd in those memoirs.
Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18, 1 June 2008– 2024.
letter 1
Crouch, née Phillips, began her career as an opera singer, developed a gift for comedy...
Travel Mary Robinson
MR visited France; in Paris she was feted by society, and received a valuable present from Marie Antoinette .
The Highfill dictionary dates this a couple of years later.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
30, 63
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, 1973–1993.
13: 35-6

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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, 1993.