Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was a composer of tunes for the voice: she contributed a song to Sheridan 's immense stage success, Pizarro.

Drury Lane Theatre was left in parlous condition at the retirement of David Garrick ; the next manager to make his mark on it was Richard Brinsley Sheridan , who now became joint-manager with three others.

MCC acted Mrs. Malaprop in three amateur performances of The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan at Westwood House in Sydenham, home of her friends the Littleton s.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

The reanimation of FB 's comedies is a happy story. Tara Ghoshal Wallace edited A Busy Day in paperback in 1984. A fringe production performed in Bristol in 1993, then in Islington, London, in...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...