George Colman

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

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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
SL had the idea for it while in debtors' prison with her father . Contemporary rumour said she had written it to get him out of prison; but at that time she apparently made no...
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
Again she published allusively, as the Author...
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
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...
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
A selection was reprinted...
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.
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Her prologue makes the point that the rapidity of modern life, symbolised by the railway, leaves no time...
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&gt”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
13
, No. 1, pp. 86-8.
87
From this Richard Steele created Yarico on...
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.
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It ran for only three nights, though after the first performance FS hastily rewrote passages in act four. The meagre single...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
As EI developed her playwriting career, she took advantage of the competitive rivalry between Harris at Covent Garden and Colman at the Haymarket to have her plays produced, offering scripts to one, then the other...
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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