MEB
's novel was probably also inspired by her role two years earlier as the quadroon Zelinda in Thomas Morton
's The Slave, playing opposite black American actor Ira Aldridge
. Braddon had probably...
Intertextuality and Influence
Madeleine Lucette Ryley
The title Mrs. Grundy derives originally from a character in Speed the Plough, 1798, a play by Thomas Morton
. This character, who originated the term Grundyism, set a standard of censorious propriety...
Textual Features
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
There are occasional moments of wit, as when destitution reveals that the family servants think terms of practical life rather than sentimental fiction: the old-fashioned type of servant, who appears so frequently in Morton
's...
Textual Production
Mary Butts
MB
' first book, a volume entitled Speed the Plough and Other Stories, was advertised by her publisher, Chapman and Hall
, with a kind of health warning to conventional buyers.
