Marishall, Jean. A Series of Letters. C. Elliot.
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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... |
Publishing | Sophia Lee | |
Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | CL
had probably begun this play immediately after the appearance of her novel Henrietta, 1759, which it reworks. Indeed, the play bore the same title as the novel when it was seen in manuscript... |
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. 2: 195 |
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... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | |
Reception | Sarah Gardner | George Colman
pursued his enmity against SG
for almost twenty years, twice staging at the Haymarket Theatre
farces in mockery of women dramatists which aim at her, and for each of which he was able... |
Reception | Mary Masters | MM
's friendship with Johnson laid her open to suspicion that he had revised and polished her poems. But this work was praised in the Gentleman's Magazine. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 25 (1755) 190-1 |
Textual Features | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Steven Epley
finds Eumea reminiscent of the native woman betrayed in Inkle and Yarico, and that the Irishman is used, like Trudge in Colman
's version of that story, to demonstrate the superiority of... |
Textual Features | Catherine Gore | CG
calls Quid Pro Quoa bustling play of the Farquhar
, or George Colman
school. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 28 |
Textual Features | Mariana Starke | In her preface MS
makes fun of rumours that were circulating about her identity—that she was a grocer's daughter, or an adventuress, or a mother of six starving children. She concludes, however, that it is... |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | These poems relate or embroider on a tale of interracial lovers whose original source is a bare paragraph in Richard Ligon
's History of Barbados, 1657. Morton, Richard Everett. “Review of Frank Felsenstein, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>English Trader, Indian Maid</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 13 , No. 1, pp. 86-8. 87 |
Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | In Garrick
's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman
. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35. 24 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | |
Textual Production | Sarah Gardner | SG
wrote and kept a detailed account of her dealings with George Colman
over staging The Matrimonial Advertisement, which her manuscript sets out like a preface to a play in print, or like the... |
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