Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Standard Name: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Newspapers spread, apparently at publisher John Maxwell
's behest, the story that he and MEB
had recently married; this rumour was soon discredited when his wife's family publicly protested. His wife's brother-in-law, Richard Brinsley Knowles |
Education | Mary Boyle | MB
was taught by governesses before she attended school. She attributed her love of theatre to her governess, Miss Richardson (Lizzie Dixie
), whose father had been the co-lessee, with Richard Brinsley Sheridan
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Blackwood | Through her father, CB
was descended from the writer Frances Sheridan
, though the Sheridan blood was thought of in the family as bad blood, and CB
's biographer seems to associate it solely... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Anne Barnard | Lady Anne lived much of her life in fashionable society, and her acquaintance was very wide. In Edinburgh in her early twenties she impressed and delighted Samuel Johnson
with an impromptu and complimentary bon mot... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Baillie | Baillie's preface explicitly denies that she was influenced by (even that she had read) German tragedians, while implicitly calling attention to the similarities in style and subject-matter between her work and theirs: for instance between... |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | Elizabeth (Berkeley), Lady Craven
(later Margravine of Anspach), defied social convention by having her comedyThe Miniature Picture (Larpent MS 525) acted at Drury Lane
, with a prologue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | While working for the Featherstones, Sydney Owenson met Thomas Moore
at a party given above his parents' grocery shop in Aungier Street, Dublin. Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 46 |
Performance of text | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, was a composer of tunes for the voice: she contributed a song to Sheridan
's immense stage success, Pizarro. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998. 323 |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | The Duchess of Devonshire knew virtually everyone in London society. Set apart was the Devonshire House Circle: a clique of wealthy and fashionable Whigs with rakish or bohemian leanings, who even spoke in their... |
Travel | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | The Duke of Devonshire planned to take his wife and his mistress to Spa in the summer of 1789. The prospect pleased them both for different reasons: Georgiana hoped for improved fertility from the waters... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | When Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, died, Lady Elizabeth was left in a quandary as to what her own status would be at Devonshire House for the future: whether she would have to find a new... |
Publishing | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | 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
... |
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