Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 4, pp. 469-00. 480
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Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | Sarah Siddons
, who starred in the play, much admired it. Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 4, pp. 469-00. 480 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Banks | The actress Mrs M'Gibbon
, known as the Manchester Mrs Siddons
, was a close friend of IB
's family. Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten. 23 |
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... |
Occupation | Anna Eliza Bray | She had to cancel this appearance because of influenza contracted while travelling to Bath. The sore throat which attended the illness weakened her voice considerably. She found no further chance to act. She had... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Brooke | Some years before her death CB
wrote her tragedy Belisarius on a story popularised by Marmontel
in his Bélisaire, 1767 (which had first reached English in the same year as its French publication). Charles Kemble |
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. |
Textual Production | Frances Burney | FB
was probably working on two comedies, The Woman-Hater and A Busy Day, and planning her casts to include Sarah Siddons
and John Philip Kemble
. Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering. 1: 192-3, 289-90 |
Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it... |
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... |
Literary Setting | Hannah Cowley | The high-minded and courageous Cleonice (the Sarah Siddons
role) is torn between duty to her husband and her tyrannical father, who are at war. She tries in vain to make peace between them, definitively siding... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Damer | AD
's wide circle of friends included Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Lady Melbourne
, Joanna Baillie
, Sarah Siddons
, the Berrysisters
, the dramatist Lady Elizabeth Craven (formerly Berkeley, later Margravine of Anspach) |
Occupation | Anne Damer | AD
was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein
notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maggie Gee | MG
first met her future husband (a great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Sarah Siddons
) in spring 1981, just after he had finished his first play. They were friends for eighteen months before dating, and decided to... |
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