Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
406-7
Her association with Congreve, however, brought CT
(together with Mary Pix) some hostile...
Literary responses
Catharine Trotter
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.
qtd. in
Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang, 1986.
89
Literary responses
Maria Theresa Kemble
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...
Literary responses
Mary Russell Mitford
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.
Textual Features
Catharine Trotter
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...