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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Eliza Haywood | She appeared in Thomas Shadwell
's adaptation of Shakespeare
's Timon of Athens. She seems to have had some provincial acting experience too, and is recorded on stage at Nottingham on 23 April 1717... |
| Occupation | Sarah Flower Adams | In addition to writing hymns, SFA
attempted a stage career: she aimed to develop both musical and dramatic skills. Eliza Bridell Fox
notes that the aspiring performer possessed a rich contralto voice. |
| Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | If biographer Jennifer Carnell
is correct, this means that she went on stage at the age of seventeen. Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press. 15 |
| Occupation | Clemence Dane | During the intensive bombing of the London Blitz, CD
gave readings of Shakespeare
in restaurants to anyone who cared to listen. Jeffrey John Archer, Earl Amherst,. Wandering Abroad: the Autobiography of Jeffrey Amherst. Secker and Warburg. 203 |
| Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She played male parts in plays by Shakespeare
and others, not as burlesque, but as straight parts after the style of Charlotte Cushman
. At least one reviewer, in Coventry's Era, objected to... |
| Occupation | Jean Middlemass | JM
never acted in a theatre, though she recited at the Royal Pavilion, to a full audience at the Dome, and at many private parties. The parts she played included: Esther in Thomas William Robertson |
| Occupation | Christopher St John | They began annual memorial performances of Shakespeare
's plays in Terry's honour. In 1929, their opening season, CSJ
appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 251 |
| Occupation | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
raised funds for the Cockpit by appealing to numerous friends to join the club for half a crown each. Most of the performers were professional actors working as understudies in long-running productions in the... |
| Occupation | Marie Corelli | Her guardianship of Shakespeare
's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him... |
| Occupation | David Garrick | DG
made his sensational first appearence on any Stage The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 935 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 935 |
| Occupation | Leah Sumbel | From the age of five Mary Stephens Davies (later Mary Wells, then LS
) acted in children's roles in Birmingham: she made her debut as one of the little princes in the Tower in... |
| Occupation | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky | FMD
published fiction in magazines launched with his brother. The first of his major novels, Zapiski iz podpol'ia (Notes from Underground), appeared in 1864. That year marked his descent into poverty but also... |
| Occupation | David Garrick | Garrick
staged Shakespeare
's Henry IV, Part 2 at Drury Lane
in historical costume instead of in the present fashions. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 947-8, 960 |
| Occupation | Fanny Kemble | FK
, not yet twenty, made a triumphant Covent Garden Theatre
debut as Shakespeare
's Juliet, saving her father
's company from bankruptcy. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 42-3 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
| Occupation | Harold Pinter | He acted for this company for a year and learned a lot. He worked his way up in Shakespearean
roles from bit parts to major ones and discovered the writings of Samuel Beckett
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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