Thomas Morton
Standard Name: Morton, Thomas
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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. Speed the Plough... |
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