EFC
's grandfather, who committed public suicide by shooting himself in the west porch of Westminster Abbey on 1 February 1797, when he was a little past seventy, was Colonel Frederick or Frederic (called by...
Occupation
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Back in England, she tried the first earning resource of the non-respectable woman: acting. Places where she performed included Farnham in Surrey and Chester (at a greater distance from London), and Warrington in Lancashire...
Publishing
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Gooch must have spent heavily on advertising. From 5 April until 5 May front-page advertisements for her book appeared in the London Star and other papers. They took up an unusual number of column-inches, since...
Reception
Sarah Gardner
A considerable debate developed about the play's alleged plagiarism from various sources: Macklin
's Love-a-la-Mode, Foote
's The Author, and Colman's own The Deuce is in Him.
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Gardner: "Such Trumpery" or ‘A Lustre to Her Sex’?”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
7
, 1988, pp. 7-25.
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On balance it seems...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Margaret Holford
A poem prefacing Wallace addresses a friend of Holford named Miss Gertrude Louisa Allen
(and includes a tribute to King George
the Good, his people's friend). A prose preface asserts the writer's English patriotism to...
Timeline
10 July 1764: A new play, The True-born Scotsman, a caricature...
Writing climate item
10 July 1764
A new play, The True-born Scotsman, a caricature of Scottishness by the Irishman Charles Macklin
, opened at Smock Alley Theatre
(or the Theatre Royal) in Dublin.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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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, 1973–1993.
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The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.