Richard Brinsley Sheridan

HC 's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane under Garrick 's successor, Sheridan .

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...

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 ...

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

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...

This literary satire was the first fruit of his wish that she should write a series of dramas for young people. Its manuscript survives in the Bodleian Library . Sheridan rejected it for Drury Lane

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...

This novel was edited, with her initials, by Lady Charlotte Bury ; she disclaimed the political opinions of the narrator, or any first-hand knowledge of the material, since, she said, it dealt with a period...

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...

This essay includes elements of fiction and reportage. It both exemplifies and defends the colourful and linguistically distinct qualities of Irish lower-class speech, pointing out that for these speakers English is their second language. (This...

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...

Yet she also approves the theatre as the School of Wisdom and Morality. Even Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's School for Scandal is pronounced excellent, despite its ridiculing of sentimental virtue. Green warns against...

GH apparently rewrote the plot of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's School for Scandal in her next Regency romance, April Lady.

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...