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Frederick Reynolds
Standard Name: Reynolds, Frederick
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Leah Sumbel | LS
published her scandalous Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, late Wells . . . Written by Herself. Including Her Correspondence with Major Topham
, Mr. Reynolds
, &c ., a life-story dedicated... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Leah Sumbel | Most important among her various lovers was the minor writer Edward Topham
, with whom her relationship approached a common-law marriage. (He had been briefly the lover of Mary Robinson
.) LS
says that Topham's... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Leah Sumbel | According to the highly popular playwright Frederick Reynolds
, he had a four-year liaison with Mary Wells (later LS
) which began with her making advances to him while she was still with Topham and... |
| Friends, Associates | Leah Sumbel | Through Topham she became friendly with Frederick Reynolds
(who became her lover and wrote of her in his Life and Times, published a few years before her death) and Robert Merry
, and through... |
| Literary responses | Marianne Chambers | The Critical Review, oddly, thought the play lacked comedy and had succeeded on stage because of its morality. It judged it a highly creditable first attempt, and hoped that MC
would one day or... |
| Textual Production | Leah Sumbel | Frederick Reynolds
, by his own account the lover of Mary Wells (later LS
) for four years, mentions finding an old commonplace-book of hers years after their affair, about the time that she published... |
Timeline
1774: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published Die...
Writing climate item
1774
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
published Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (translated into English by June 1779 as The Sorrows of Werter. A German Story, Founded on Fact).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
47 (1779)
Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, AMS Press, 2002, pp. 283-35. 286
Texts
Reynolds, Frederick. The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds. Benjamin Blom, 1969, 2 vols.