Frances Sheridan

01 January 1724 - 26 August 1766

Standard Name: Sheridan, Frances

Birth Name: Frances Chamberlaine

Married Name: Frances Sheridan

Pseudonym: The Editor of Sidney Bidulph

Pseudonym: The Author of the Discovery

Pseudonym: The Late Editor of the Former Part

FS was a novelist and dramatist whose adult writing career was cut short after less than seven years. She was a leading practitioner of the eighteenth-century sentimental novel. She also wrote poetry.

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Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Anthologization	Mary Julia Young	An abridged version of this novel was included in an odd collection: Tales of My Landlady, compiled by William Thomas Haley and published in 1843-4. Also included were versions of Frances Sheridan 's The...
Birth	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	RBS , son of the novelist and playwright Frances Sheridan , and later a playwright and theatre manager himself, was born at 12 Dorset Street, Dublin. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954. 478 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Family and Intimate relationships	Caroline Blackwood	Through her father, CB was descended from the writer Frances Sheridan , though the Sheridan blood was thought of in the family as bad blood, and CB 's biographer seems to associate it solely...
Family and Intimate relationships	Rhoda Broughton	The Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu was RB 's uncle by marriage. Himself a grandson of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and great-grandson of Frances Sheridan , he had married Broughton's mother's sister (who was born Susanna Bennett
Family and Intimate relationships	Harriette Wilson	On the journey to Newcastle HW had begun a flirtation with the witty Tom Sheridan (born 1775, son of the playwright, grandson of Frances Sheridan , and father of Caroline Norton ). He and his...
Family and Intimate relationships	Caroline Norton	She may have been less aware of her great-grand-mother on that side, novelist and playwright Frances Sheridan . The history of women writers has been so much thrown into the shade that several sources on...
Friends, Associates	Catharine Macaulay	With her husband CM lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan after she had become a writer. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992. 14 She subscribed to Elizabeth Carter 's translation of Epictetus . Of her radical friends Thomas Hollis
Friends, Associates	Sarah Fielding	SF 's important friendship with Samuel Richardson probably dates from about 1744. In 1750 he included her and Jane Collier in a list of thirty-six superior women, most of them his friends. Through Richardson she...
Friends, Associates	Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan	While working for the Featherstones, Sydney Owenson met Thomas Moore at a party given above his parents' grocery shop in Aungier Street, Dublin. Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 46 She gained access to Ireland's bluestocking circle through Alicia or Alice Lefanu
Intertextuality and Influence	Charlotte Smith	This epistolary novel is highly political; its preface asserts a woman's right to interest in politics. The letters in it span the period from June 1790 to February 1792, tracking the events of the French...
Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Brooke	This was one of the earliest novels of sensibility, and was probably influenced by Frances Sheridan 's Sidney Bidulph. Its sentimental content, however, co-exists both with comment on politics and with a coherent plot...
Intertextuality and Influence	Charlotte Lennox	Euphemia tells her life-story to her friend Maria, whose reciprocal relation takes up part of volume one. The tone is more sentimental than that of Lennox's previous novels, although this is a more political work...
Intertextuality and Influence	Alethea Lewis	The Sheridan quoted on the title-page is probably Frances . AL enjoys playing with different styles. One of the two young heroes opens the book with a long, complicated aphorism about love and obedience to...
Intertextuality and Influence	Helen Maria Williams	This novel re-writes Rousseau 's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloise in the sentimental style of Frances Sheridan 's Sidney Bidulph or Henry Mackenzie 's Julia de Roubigné. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993. 33 The love-triangle of Williams's Julia is...
Literary responses	Charlotte Lennox	This time Lennox had at least a moderate stage success, bringing her a welcome author's benefit night. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 4: 1928ff She became the first successful female novelist of her generation to break into theatre, as Frances Sheridan

Timeline

1780

James Harrison (hitherto chiefly known as a music publisher) began to issue the handsomely-produced Novelists' Magazine, a weekly serial reprinting of canonical novels.

Shevlin, Elinor. “’It is the intention of the Editor’: Griffith’s, Harrison’s, and Cooke’s collections and the making of the English novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 21 Apr. 2001.

British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.

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1814

John Colin Dunlop published The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age.

Warner, William Beatty. Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750. University of California Press, 1998.

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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Texts

Sheridan, Frances. Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph. J. Dodsley, 1767, 2 vols.

Sheridan, Frances. Eugenia and Adelaide. C. Dilly, 1791, 2 vols.

Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.

Townsend, Sue, and Frances Sheridan. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Pandora Press, 1987, p. ix - xi.

Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.

Sheridan, Frances. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph. R. and J. Dodsley, 1761, 3 vols.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, and Frances Sheridan. Sheridan’s Plays, now printed as he wrote them, and his mother’s unpublished comedy, A Journey to Bath. Editor Rae, W. Fraser, D. Nutt, 1902.

Sheridan, Frances. The Discovery. T. Davies, 1763.

Sheridan, Frances. The Dupe. A. Millar, 1764.

Sheridan, Frances. The History of Nourjahad. J. Dodsley, 1767.

Sheridan, Frances. The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph. Editors Hutner, Heidi and Nicole Garret, Broadview Editions, Broadview Press, 2011.

Sheridan, Frances. The Plays of Frances Sheridan. Editors Hogan, Robert and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984.