Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White, 1883.
I: prelims
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | She dedicated it to Caroline Norton
's brother, who shared the name of his grandfather Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, and to the memory of Houstoun's own brother, John Heneage Jesse
. Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White, 1883. I: prelims |
Dedications | Sophia Lee | SL
published a ballad, A Hermit's Tale, dedicated to Richard Brinsley Sheridan
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 63 (1787): 220 |
Education | Mary Boyle | MB
was taught by governesses before she attended school. She attributed her love of theatre to her governess, Miss Richardson (Lizzie Dixie
), whose father had been the co-lessee, with Richard Brinsley Sheridan
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | SFG
had two daughters or adopted daughters, Pamela
(named after Richardson
's fictional heroine) and Hermine. Pamela later married an Irish patriot, becoming Lady Edward Fitzgerald
. The question of her parentage, and indeed her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | Tom Sheridan
, CN
's father, son of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, bore the same name as his famous eighteenth-century grandfather, the actor, and great-grandfather, the clergyman and schoolmaster. He had been an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | Caroline was brought up on stories of her grandfather Richard Brinsley Sheridan
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Blackwood | Through her father, CB
was descended from the writer Frances Sheridan
, though the Sheridan blood was thought of in the family as bad blood, and CB
's biographer seems to associate it solely... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Sheridan | FS
's third child, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(born 30 October 1751), was still very young when he became a playwright, a theatre manager, and the most famous member of the family. Weaver, John Reginald Homer, editor. The Dictionary of National Biography, Fourth Supplement, 1922-1930. Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1937. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Newspapers spread, apparently at publisher John Maxwell
's behest, the story that he and MEB
had recently married; this rumour was soon discredited when his wife's family publicly protested. His wife's brother-in-law, Richard Brinsley Knowles |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rhoda Broughton | The Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu
was RB
's uncle by marriage. Himself a grandson of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
and great-grandson of Frances Sheridan
, he had married Broughton's mother's sister (who was born Susanna Bennett |
Fictionalization | Anna Miller | |
Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | Robinson found good friends among the male cultural and social leaders with whom she remained free to mix. Her daughter particularly mentions, as well as Sheridan
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Edmund Burke
, and... |