Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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.

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...

Sidney Bidulph was also influential. It helped shape the depiction of unhappy marriage in Lennox 's Euphemia. Though FS 's son Richard Brinsley claimed not to have read it, he borrowed from it...

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...

Garrick 's reply did not take up Sheridan's points about the play's content. Instead he feigned comic alarm at a challenge from a lady, and defended his own managerial practice with lavish use of the...

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...

While working for the Featherstones, Sydney Owenson met Thomas Moore at a party given above his parents' grocery shop in Aungier Street, Dublin. She gained access to Ireland's bluestocking circle through Alicia or Alice Lefanu

This, one of her most lively and engaging children's books, features a main character named Ratto, who wanders through the world from London to Russia, eventually joining up with a rat-hero named Whiskerandos.

In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...

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...

The poem is dedicated by their sincere admirer, the author, to those, whose dramatic excellence suggested it.MJY did not claim it with her name until its re-issue with other poems in 1795...