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Textual Features | Maria Riddell | 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... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Polwhele | The Frolicks is low London comedy—lively, realistic, and distinctly bawdy. Polwhele, Elizabeth. “Introduction: A ’Lost’ Play and its Context”. The Frolicks, edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, pp. 13-49. 19 |
Performance of text | Anne Plumptre | 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 London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 2178 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jean Plaidy | 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... |
Performance of text | Eliza Parsons | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | 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 |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | 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. Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott. 2: 1192 |
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
. |
Wealth and Poverty | Caroline Norton | 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
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | 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... |
Textual Production | Hannah More | She had written four of its five acts when David Garrick
died, leaving her indifferent about the play and reluctant about performance. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 37 Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky. 24 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 38 |
Occupation | Thomas Moore | 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... |
Fictionalization | Anna Miller | |
Textual Production | Emma Marshall |
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