Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Widowed and left destitute, Sidney is rescued by the rich Ned Warner, who has first tested her generosity and compassion by pretending to be poor (an episode plagiarised by FS 's son in The School...

This essay includes elements of fiction and reportage. It both exemplifies and defends the colourful and linguistically distinct qualities of Irish lower-class speech, pointing out that for these speakers English is their second language. (This...

The Frolicks is low London comedy—lively, realistic, and distinctly bawdy.Milhous distinguishes four plot-lines, all conventional: that of the imaginary cuckold (most famously used a century later by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in The School...

MR 's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill (the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (St...

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...

This novel was edited, with her initials, by Lady Charlotte Bury ; she disclaimed the political opinions of the narrator, or any first-hand knowledge of the material, since, she said, it dealt with a period...

As early as March-April 1788 AY 's backers Eliza Dawson and Wilmer Gossip were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at...

This time her work was able to reach the stage (for just one night) because the second wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan , manager of Drury Lane, was her relation: Hester Jane née Ogle ...

Her book did well. Many clergy, many parents of girls in the Hans Place school, many relations of the author and of her dedicatee subscribed, plus Elizabeth Gunning , Richard Brinsley Sheridan , and Sarah Trimmer

Garrick disparaged the play, and apparently on account of FS 's gender he used Mrs Victor (wife of his treasurer, who had formerly worked for Thomas Sheridan) as his intermediary for communication with her. In...

This literary satire was the first fruit of his wish that she should write a series of dramas for young people. Its manuscript survives in the Bodleian Library . Sheridan rejected it for Drury Lane

HC 's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane under Garrick 's successor, Sheridan .

Elizabeth (Berkeley), Lady Craven (later Margravine of Anspach), defied social convention by having her comedy The Miniature Picture (Larpent MS 525) acted at Drury Lane , with a prologue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , and...

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was a composer of tunes for the voice: she contributed a song to Sheridan 's immense stage success, Pizarro.

It shared the bill (which was given for the benefit of actress Isabella Mattocks ) with Elizabeth Inchbald 's The Child of Nature (adapted from Genlis ) and The Soldier's Festival; or, The Night before...