Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Yet she also approves the theatre as the School of Wisdom and Morality. Even Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's School for Scandal is pronounced excellent, despite its ridiculing of sentimental virtue. Green warns against...

This play succeeded on stage in the teeth of a cabal against it. The Critical Review gave a somewhat mixed message, saying the play would have been thought excellent if only that wicked wit, Sheridan

GH apparently rewrote the plot of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's School for Scandal in her next Regency romance, April Lady.

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 .

One stage part she hated playing was one of those foul-mouthed and golden-hearted old women, who drink, swear, steal, and in fact do everything but murder, and yet retain hearts as pure as the driven...

The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel...

Mary Russell Mitford was another who knew FK well even apart from their connection through the theatre. Other friends from this period or soon afterwards included the future poet and novelist Caroline Norton

Caroline Ponsonby (later LCL ) was only three when the scandal erupted over her mother 's affair with the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; a couple of months later Caroline's father launched divorce proceedings.

SL published a ballad, A Hermit's Tale, dedicated to Richard Brinsley Sheridan .

EBL gives a different interpretation to Mrs Ross's phrase the balance of comfort, balancing (here and in later novels) the single against the married life. The title-page quotes five prose maxims from one Harris...

This strikingly inventive and ingenious tale seems to owe a good deal to Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein (though Shelley receives no tribute in passing, as do R. B. Sheridan , Byron , and especially Scott

NM 's mother played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White and a shirt...

EM also proposed to Seeley trying a shilling paper-cover book. Her first of these became The Tower on the Cliff, A Story founded on a Gloucestershire Legend, 1886, which was warmly praised by...

ALM evidently possessed the kind of personality or manner that moved others to caricature her. She is mentioned in the dedication of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's The School for Scandal, and it has been...

TM later established himself as a biographer with a string of books: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825), an edition of Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830), and...