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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Blackwood | |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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 |
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. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 46 |
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... |
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 | 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 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 | 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 |
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, 1968. 4: 1928ff |