George Powell

Standard Name: Powell, George

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Mary Pix
MP , again with Trotter , was attacked in Animadversions on Mr. Congreve 's Late Answer to Mr. Collier, probably by George Powell .
Greer, Germaine, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff, and Melinda Sansone, editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
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Literary responses Catharine Trotter
This was CT 's greatest success. The young George Farquhar much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon .
Greer, Germaine, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff, and Melinda Sansone, editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
406-7
Her association with Congreve, however, brought CT (together with Mary Pix) some hostile...
Publishing Mary Pix
After asking the actor George Powell to help her get it accepted at Drury Lane, she had then taken it to the other theatre, and claimed that Powell plagiarised it in his The Imposture Defeated...

Timeline

About November 1697
A tragedy by Charles Hopkins , Boadicea, Queen of Britain, starring Elizabeth Barry , scored an immense success.
16 November 1710
George Powell brought from Bath to London a puppet show presenting the titillating History of Chast Susanna, and the 2 wicked Elders.