Edward Topham

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...

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...

Among AG 's acquaintances in her later years were Felicia Hemans and Thomas Campbell . Among those who praised her acute mind and generous nature were Edward Topham , John Gibson Lockhart . She...

Mary Wells (later LS ) played for her own benefit in Small Talk; or The Westminster Boy, a farce by her lover Edward Topham ; the theatre was closed by a riot.

She received rave reviews for this first appearance, as Mrs Cadwallader in The Author (a burlesque portrayal of a woman writer). Later that summer she swashbuckled as Macheath in a famous transvestite production of Gay

HC 's poems to Della Crusca (Robert Merry ), written as Anna Matilda, appeared in Edward Topham 's The World, or Fashionable Advertiser, interspersed with Merry's replies.

The Fool, a farce by Edward Topham , lover of Mary Wells (later LS ), had some help from her in its writing.

Edward Topham , lover of Mary Wells (later LS ), launched a newspaper, The World, and Fashionable Advertiser, which she helped manage, edit, and write.