Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke in Bristol the previous September...

She had written four of its five acts when David Garrick died, leaving her indifferent about the play and reluctant about performance.Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote an epilogue. It was published by...

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...

Caroline was brought up on stories of her grandfather Richard Brinsley Sheridan .

The burning down of Drury Lane Theatre on 24 February 1809 was a financial catastrophe for CN 's parents, as well as for her grandfather Richard Brinsley Sheridan .

MO 's Sheridan for the English Men of Letters series, 1883, was universally decried. The charges against it included inaccuracy and excess of moral blame for the man as opposed to the writer.

In 1813 she again met de Staël (who was visiting London) and introduced her to Elizabeth Inchbald . Others she met after her husband's death included Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Byron , and Sir Walter Scott

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...

The title of this last book, adapting from the drinking song about girls sung by Charles Surface in Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's The School for Scandal, suggests the attitude taken to the high-living behaviour...

AP was paid £25 for the use by Sheridan and the Drury Lane Theatre of her translation of Kotzebue 's Die Spanier in Peru.

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...

Soon after her husband's release, MR was introduced to the theatre manager Sheridan , to whom she recited passages of Shakespeare as a sample of what she could do.

MR stopped acting during the later stages of her second pregnancy; her daughter Sophia was baptised on 24 May 1777, but died in her mother's arms at six weeks, of convulsions. MR was touched by...

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...