John Genest

First Faults received a condescending review in the June number of the Monthly Mirror. It was, however, enthusiastically welcomed in a poem by Martha Hale , who encouraged MTK to emulate playwright, actress, and...

MRM 's plays were admired by Maria Edgeworth , Joanna Baillie , and Felicia Hemans , though John Genest (in Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 1832), judged them dull.

This was CT 's greatest success. The young George Farquhar much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon . Her association with Congreve, however, brought CT (together with Mary Pix) some hostile...

Genest liked this no better than CT 's other plays, finding it unnatural. Recent commentators have in this case been no more favourable, Nancy Cotton finding it priggish and Robert Humesentimental mush.

In her dedication CT again complained of the difficulties faced by women, not only in the world of the theatre but in any attempt to distinguish themselves. In her printed preface she voiced her dislike...