Charles James Mathews

Standard Name: Mathews, Charles James

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Kirkham Mathews
This date is given in the International Genealogical Index. Anne Mathews in her memoirs gives a date of November that year, oddly since that puts the wedding only a month before the birth of...
Friends, Associates Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
Charles Mathews , later a well-known actor, accompanied them abroad. His wife and son (not his first wife, the writer Eliza Kirkham Mathews ) were also friends of Lady Blessington.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
In France the travelling party...
Friends, Associates Dinah Mulock Craik
In London, the young Dinah Mulock was able to attend the theatre regularly, thanks to the offer of a private Covent Garden Theatre box for her family from Charles James Mathews and his wife...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
The Times review was magisterially condescending: it admitted that nobody could be stern enough to resist the [t]rifling and absurd . . . practical jokes
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Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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that made up the piece. Actor Charles Mathews produced...
Reception Catherine Gore
Quid Pro Quo proved as controversial in production as in competition. Madame Vestris , Charles Mathews , and Anne Jackson Mathews refused to play the parts assigned them and substitutes had to be found.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Timeline

6 December 1830: Lucia Vestris became the first long-term...

Building item

6 December 1830

Lucia Vestris became the first long-term female theatre manager of the century, when she reopened the Olympic Theatre .
Appleton, William Worthen. Madame Vestris and the London Stage. Columbia University Press, 1974.
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Booth, Michael R. et al. Three Tragic Actresses: Siddons, Rachel, Ristori. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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March 1841: The young Dionysius Lardner Boucicault's...

Writing climate item

March 1841

The young Dionysius Lardner Boucicault 's London Assurance was staged at Covent Garden by Charles James Mathews and Madame Vestris .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
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