From August 1823 MRM
was planning a grand historical tragedy on the greatest subject in English story—Charles and Cromwell.
qtd. in
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 16
She noted Cromwell
's domestic virtues and thought of him as a man acting...
Publishing
Mary Russell Mitford
George Colman the younger
wrote—not to MRM
but to a man, Raymond Stephenson
—the information that the Lord Chamberlain had rejected her tragedy Charles the First.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 51
Textual Features
Susanna Watts
The title-page quotes Pope
, who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron
(The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor
(The Squire's...
Textual Production
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
SSW
, or her publishers, did not always acknowledge the sources of her popular works. Indeed, the claim to be An Original Romance was at least once made fraudulently. John Bull; or, The Englishman's Fire-Side...