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Textual Features | Sarah Pearson | The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful... |
Textual Features | Joanna Baillie | The volume included praise of Elizabeth Fry
, and JB
's own epistle To Mrs Siddons, in which, while warmly praising the great tragedienne's former performances, she argues that even in retirement Siddons still... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | There are occasional moments of wit, as when destitution reveals that the family servants think terms of practical life rather than sentimental fiction: the old-fashioned type of servant, who appears so frequently in Morton
's... |
Textual Features | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it... |
Reception | Hannah More | The Critical was brief and unfriendly: it said that the play, though not the best, is, perhaps, the bloodiest production of the modern drama . . . . The author is more obliged to a... |
Publishing | Ann Yearsley | As early as March-April 1788 AY
's backers Eliza Dawson
and Wilmer Gossip
were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at... |
Publishing | Anna Brownell Jameson | The biographical impulse is everywhere evident in ABJ
's writing, including her writing on art. In addition to the full-length studies mentioned above, she published shorter articles on Albrecht Dürer
, Mrs Siddons
, and... |
Publishing | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Her poetic oeuvre consists of a core of longish serious poems, a verse drama, other theatre pieces and a large penumbra of occasional poems and jeux d'esprit. She worked in the ode, essay, epistle, pastoral... |
Publishing | Sophia Lee | One of the last postponements, in spring 1796, resulted from the illness of Sarah Siddons, who was to star in it along with her brothers. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xxxiii |
Publishing | Helen Maria Williams | The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW
's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall
, with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway
. Subscribers included the Prince of Wales
(whose name... |
Performance of text | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | An epilogue she wrote for Joanna Baillie
's tragedy De Montfort was spoken by Sarah Siddons
when the play opened at Drury Lane Theatre
, London, on 29 April 1800. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 331 |
Performance of text | Frances Burney | FB
's tragedy Edwy and Elgiva, the only one of her plays to reach the stage in her lifetime, had its single performance at Drury Lane
, starring Sarah Siddons
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | One early performance drew bigger crowds than Drury Lane, although the rival theatre that night featured Sarah Siddons
on stage and the king and queen in the audience. More Ways Than One was published on... |
Occupation | Eliza Fletcher | This friendship was built on a shared interest in literature, in patronising the poor or socially oppressed who aspired to writing, in encouraging inoculation and in promoting Sunday schools. Eliza was interested particularly in the... |
Occupation | Ann Hatton | Ann Kemble (later AH
) may have been acting at the Smock Alley TheatreDublin, the season after her sister
's first great success. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 7: 172 |
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