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Performance of text | John Oliver Hobbes | In the same year JOH and Moore also collaborated on the one-act comedy Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting (titled from Shakespeare), which was performed in June 1895 (according to her father's memoir) Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray, 1911. 23 |
Performance of text | Carol Ann Duffy | On the four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death, seven typically touching and witty poems by CAD on Shakespeare the man were performed as Shakespeare Masque, in a musical setting by Sally Beamish, in... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Montagu | EM, eighteenth-century Bluestocking leader, is known on the one hand as an informal letter-writer, and on the other hand for ambitious critical intervention in canonicity and cultural debates, with her critical study of Shakespeare |
Author summary | Charlotte Stopes | CS was a keen researcher who wrote extensive criticism on Shakespeare. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she published prolifically to support her family. An active feminist, she spoke and wrote widely... |
Author summary | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | HMB, who published mainly in the early nineteenth century, was an editor, conduct-book writer, theological writer, poet, and novelist. She was also the originator of the project for rendering Shakespeare inoffensive to delicate ears... |
Author summary | Samuel Johnson | Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and... |
Author summary | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC was a leading nineteenth-century Shakespearean scholar, who (in collaboration with her husband, Charles Cowden Clarke) annotated editions, compiled a concordance, and wrote a key or encyclopaedia, and on her own account produced an... |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | She dedicated it to the court lady Anna Maria Poyntz. It may perhaps be the Book Upon Education Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli. xxxix |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | The story's ending led to conflict with Dickens, who apparently wanted to offer readers a more rationalist interpretation of the events narrated. When Gaskell demurred he pulled out all the stops: I have no... |
Publishing | L. M. Montgomery | At Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown a few years after this, she wrote an essay on Shakepeare's Portia which was read out at the graduation ceremonies and printed in the Charlottetown Guardian. In... |
Publishing | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | HMB published at Bath an expurgated edition of twenty of Shakespeare's plays, in four volumes, as The Family Shakespeare. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Samuel Johnson | SJ published by subscription, again after many delays, his edition of Shakespeare. Bronson, Bertrand H., and Samuel Johnson. “Introduction”. Johnson on Shakespeare, edited by Arthur Sherbo and Arthur Sherbo, Yale Edition, Yale University Press, 1975, p. xiii - xxxviii. xxiii |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | By the time she reached twenty, MEC was regularly contributing essays to periodicals like The Monthly Packet and Merry England. One of her first publications was an essay on Shakespeare for The Theatre. Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. “Memoir and Editorial Materials”. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, edited by Edith Sichel, Constable, 1910, pp. 1 - 44; various pages. 15 Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983. 78 |
Publishing | Anne Grant | AG had been urged to publish when she first became a widow, but had more dread of censure than hope of applause. Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols. 1: 15 |
Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | CL published the first two volumes of Shakespear Illustrated, a pioneer work in the scholarship of sources. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44. 326 |
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