George Colman

Standard Name: Colman, George,, the elder
Used Form: Mr Town, critic and censor-general

Connections

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Anthologization Elizabeth Carter
She printed this with her father's approval and support; he suggested, as scholar Gwen Hampshire has pointed out, that she should print about three dozen copies. When George Colman and Bonnell Thornton included EC in...
Anthologization Catharine Trotter
Several shorter poems by CT are known today only from their inclusion in George Colman 's and Bonnell Thornton 's anthology Poems by Eminent Ladies in its edition of 1757.
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
223-4
This suggests that other...
Employer Sarah Gardner
Her regular Haymarket engagement ended the first summer after George Colman took over from Foote, when Colman first accepted her own play The Matrimonial Advertisement, then botched its staging and blamed her for its...
Employer Elizabeth Inchbald
EI performed in both winter and summer seasons, at Covent Garden and the Little Theatre, Haymarket (under manager George Colman ). During the season 1780-1781, the Covent Garden theatre paid her two pounds a week...
Family and Intimate relationships Judith Cowper Madan
JCM 's nephew William Cowper the poet, with whom she corresponded, took an interest in her work and was probably the channel through which her poems reached the anthologists Colman and Thornton .
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780. Bucknell University Press, 2009.
155n55
Literary responses Susanna Haswell Rowson
Charlotte Temple has received a great deal of recent critical attention. Steven Epley has discerned a possible connection with Inkle and Yarico (which he classes as folk legend).
Epley, Steven. “Alienated, Betrayed, and Powerless: A Possible Connection between Charlotte Temple and the Legend of Inkle and Yarico”. Papers on Language and Literature, Vol.
38
, No. 2, 1 Mar.–31 May 2002, pp. 200-22.
Going behind George Colman 's stage version...
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
The Monthly Review found the heroine of this book more interesting than Betsy Thoughtless (with better character-drawing but a continued deficiency in plot and sentiments. It conceded that the whole was doubtless much superior to...
Occupation Sarah Gardner
SG appeared at the Haymarket Theatre in a play called The Female Dramatist, by her old adversary George Colman .
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Gardner: "Such Trumpery" or ‘A Lustre to Her Sex’?”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
7
, 1988, pp. 7-25.
15
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 537
Occupation Susanna Haswell Rowson
She, with her husband and half a dozen other members of the Philadelphia New Theatre had defected to this Boston theatre by November 1796. There she appeared in November and December that year in a...
Performance of text Hannah Cowley
HC 's second full-length play, the tragedy Albina, Countess Raimond, opened at the summer Haymarket Theatre (managed by George Colman ), which did not usually perform tragedy.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 268
Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol.
1
, Garland, 1979, p. v - xlxx.
xvi
Escott, Angela, and Isobel Grundy. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. 24 Oct. 2002.
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's farce Young Men and Old Women, an unpublished adaptation from French, was performed on stage as afterpiece to George Colman the elder 's The Suicide.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1465
Publishing Henrietta Battier
She hoped to get a volume of her collected poems published while she was in London in 1784, and enlisted the aid of Samuel Johnson. Johnson offered positive encouragement (assuring her he had often been...
Publishing Jean Marishall
JM says the idea of writing a comedy was first suggested to her by Hope amid the disappointments that attended the appearance of her first novel.
Marishall, Jean. A Series of Letters. C. Elliot, 1788, 2 vols.
2: 195
Again she published allusively, as the Author...
Publishing Elizabeth Griffith
After The School for Rakes, Garrick appeared to think he had done all for EG that she could expect from him, and repelled a series of advances from her about a new play. By...
Publishing Sarah Gardner
SG submitted to George Colman , new manager of the Haymarket Theatre , her three-act comedy The Matrimonial Advertisement, or A Bold Stroke for a Husband.
In her manuscript, SG uses The Matrimonial Advertisement...

Timeline

31 January 1754-30 September 1756: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton published...

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31 January 1754-30 September 1756

George Colman and Bonnell Thornton published their periodical The Connoisseur, under the pen name of Mr Town, critic and censor-general.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
43
Colman, George, the elder, and Bonnell Thornton. The Connoisseur. Harrison, http://U of A Special Collections.

By 22 May 1755: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited...

Women writers item

By 22 May 1755

George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited and published an anthology entitled Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
12: 512
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
210
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
86-7
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
286-7

By the end of 1755: Material from Bonnell Thornton's and George...

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By the end of 1755

Material from Bonnell Thornton 's and George Colman 's prestigious anthology, Poems by Eminent Ladies, was recycled for a different market in A Select Collection of the Love Letters of several Eminent Persons, edited by G. Gaylove.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
284-5

26 November 1761: John Rich, holder of the licence for Covent...

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26 November 1761

John Rich , holder of the licence for Covent Garden Theatre , died; his widow, Priscilla (who had been a performer before her marriage), took nominal control of the theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 881, 905
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.
4: 346, 348-9

14 October 1769: Garrick's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at...

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14 October 1769

Garrick 's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at Drury Lane , where it enjoyed the record run of the century: ninety performances in one season.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1419

16 January 1777: George Colman the elder bought the Haymarket...

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16 January 1777

George Colman the elder bought the Haymarket Theatre ; he subsequently authored more than thirty plays.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
41
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5.1: 7

From 30 July 1778: George Colman's Bonduca (adapted from a play...

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From 30 July 1778

George Colman 's Bonduca (adapted from a play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher ) kept up the tradition of stage representations of this female national hero, better known as Boadicea.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
124
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 185

2 September 1788: The theatre at Richmond, Yorkshire, opened...

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2 September 1788

The theatre at Richmond, Yorkshire, opened with George Colman 's Inkle and Yarico.
Theatre personnel,. Information from theatre personnel about Richmond Theatre to Isobel Grundy. 13 Aug. 1998.
The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, (Richmond Theatre) North Yorkshire, UK. http://www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.uk/.

Texts

Colman, George, the elder, and Bonnell Thornton, editors. Poems by Eminent Ladies. 1st ed., R. Baldwin, 1755, 2 vols.
Colman, George, the elder, and Bonnell Thornton. The Connoisseur. Harrison, http://U of A Special Collections.