The review in The Scotsman said she played this ladwith infinite truth and many pleasant touches of humour. This lady has, indeed, rarely been seen in a part which showed her to so much...
Textual Production
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Readers including actor and dramatist J. B. Buckstone
pestered Braddon by letter to learn how the story ended. She placed it in another periodical and finished it quickly, writing more than the third volume in...
Timeline
10 June 1833: The Dramatic Copyright Act was passed....
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10 June 1833
The Dramatic Copyright Act was passed.
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
124
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2024.
(1833): 138
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
chronology
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
23-4
January 1845: J. B. Buckstone's The Green Bushes; or, A...
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January 1845
J. B. Buckstone
's The Green Bushes; or, A Hundred Years Ago opened at the Adelphi Theatre.
Moody, Jane. “Illusions of authorship”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 99-124.
