GH
apparently rewrote the plot of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
's School for Scandal in her next Regency romance, April Lady.
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head, 1984.
118-19, 209
Textual Production
Frances Burney
After the triumph of Evelina, FB
's first intention was to write for the stage. She had the encouragement of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, manager of Drury Lane Theatre
, and of dramatist Arthur Murphy
.
Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering, 1995, 2 vols.
1: xviii, 3
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
ME
wrote in a preface of her desire to find her way in this new career as playwright: a career she had been advised to by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 5 (1817): 508
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Mary Julia Young
The poem is dedicated by their sincere admirer, the author, to those, whose dramatic excellence suggested it.
Young, Mary Julia. Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches. H. D. Symonds and J. Gray.
1792, prelims
MJY
did not claim it with her name until its re-issue with other poems in 1795...
Textual Production
Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC
continued to write occasional verse, including a prologue for an amateur production of As You Like It which she cast in the form of a dialogue between herself (Mrs Cowden) and the...
Textual Production
Emma Marshall
EM
also proposed to Seeley
trying a shilling paper-cover book.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
206
Her first of these became The Tower on the Cliff, A Story founded on a Gloucestershire Legend, 1886, which was warmly praised by...
Textual Production
Ngaio Marsh
NM
's mother
played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager
made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White
and a shirt...
Textual Production
Hannah Cowley
She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it...
Textual Production
Phebe Gibbes
A musical drama by PG
was accepted for production, but then lost, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, new manager of Drury Lane Theatre
.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Textual Production
Hannah Cowley
It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular.
Escott, Angela, and Isobel Grundy. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. 24 Oct. 2002.
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...
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, 1990.
