A sister-in-law claimed that her death had been marked by a banshee traditional to the Sheridan family, wailing around the house at Quilca; but FS
's grand-daughter Alicia Lefanu
indignantly denied that her English-descended...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Sheridan
Of this writing dynasty, the other most remarkable member was FS
's grand-daughter Alicia Lefanu or Le Fanu
the younger.
Friends, Associates
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
While working for the Featherstones, Sydney Owenson met Thomas Moore
at a party given above his parents' grocery shop in Aungier Street, Dublin.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
Female historians have evinced more interest in CM
than male historians, but their evaluations have often been tinged with condescension or qualified with mockery. Women mentioning her have included Alicia Lefanu
in 1824, Dorothy Gardiner
Occupation
William Godwin
The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson
: visitors included Germaine de Staël
. It remained, however...
Textual Production
Hannah Cowley
According to the memoir published here, HC
wrote rapidly, revising nothing and often not saving short poems at all. Most of her smaller poems were written without rising from the chair in which the thought...
Textual Production
Frances Sheridan
FS
's granddaughter Alicia Lefanu
published Memoirs of FS
, which incorporate a good deal of Sheridan's own writing.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
xxxix
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
13
Textual Production
Frances Sheridan
Sheridan had hired Theophilus Cibber
for the summer season; Cibber, predictably, made trouble, in this case over a production of Addison
's Cato. Frances Chamberlaine's verse was printed in a pamphlet of this year...
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Texts
Le Fanu, Alicia, b. 1791. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan. G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824.