Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
223-4
George Colman
Standard Name: Colman, George,, the elder
Used Form: Mr Town, critic and censor-general
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 | Elizabeth Inchbald | She was working on a farce again in December 1779, and a year after that she submitted another one, on the topic of polygamy, to Harris
, who rejected it. Yet another farce, The Ancient... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
anonymously submitted The Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon, to Colman
in March 1784. He paid her 100 guineas for it, having asked for and got some revisions. It was at... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | It appeared, four months after she submitted it to Colman
, and ran for ten days. EI
played a small role, Selina, and at one point dried up completely on stage. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987. 31-2 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Smith | Encouraged by her friendship with the theatrical patron and amateur performer Henrietta O'Neill
, CS
had long thought about writing for the stage. She had written to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, in 1795 about... |
Timeline
31 January 1754-30 September 1756: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton published...
Writing climate item
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...
Women writers item
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...
Building item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Building item
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.