Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate.
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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. 223-4 |
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. 155n55 |
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... |
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, pp. 200-22. |
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 , pp. 7-25. 15 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 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. 5: 268 Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol. 1 , Garland, p. v - xlxx. xvi Escott, Angela. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. |
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. 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 | 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. 31-2 |