The daughter of a presumably white, professional, Irish family, Annie French
was related on her mother's side to the seventeenth-century Bishop Jeremy Taylor
and the eighteenth-century author Edmond Malone
.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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wrote at a time when, as Martyn Wakelin
puts it, standard English had become a norm that drove out other dialects except in local speech and in literary works whose authors were after local...
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29 November 1790: Edmond Malone, who in 1778 had published...
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29 November 1790
Edmond Malone
, who in 1778 had published the first serious attempt at a date order for Shakespeare's plays, followed that with his immensely learned edition of Shakespeare
, which set the standards for later scholarship.
Martin, Peter. Edmond Malone, Shakespearean scholar. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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2 April 1796: Vortigern and Rowena, allegedly a newly-discovered...
“William Henry Ireland and the Shakespeare Fabrications”. University of Delaware Library: Special Collections Department: Exhibitions and Publications: Special Collections Exhibitions 1995 - 2001: Forging a Collection: the Frank W. Tober Collection on Literary Forgery.