Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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George Colman
Standard Name: Colman, George,, the elder
Used Form: Mr Town, critic and censor-general
Connections
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| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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's farce Young Men and Old Women, an unpublished adaptation from French, was performed on stage as afterpiece to George Colman the elder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 |
| 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. |
| 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 , pp. 7-25. 15 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 537 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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