Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Frances Sheridan
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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.
This began his career as theatre manager. One of a manager's duties might be considered to be the putting on of new plays, to ensure the health of the theatre of the future, but familiar...
Occupation
William Godwin
The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson
: visitors included Germaine de Staël
. It remained, however...
Textual Features
Maria Susanna Cooper
The protagonist, Mrs Villars, is introduced in letters from Lady Egerton, who was very ill at Bath when Mrs Villars saved her life, and is now staying at her benefactress's house in Essex. Lady...
Textual Features
Eliza Parsons
Money issues arise early in this story. Mr Mead was curate to a small parish in Lincolnshire, and performed the whole duty within eight miles round, for the noble salary of thirty-five pounds a...
Textual Features
Maria Edgeworth
This essay includes elements of fiction and reportage. It both exemplifies and defends the colourful and linguistically distinct qualities of Irish lower-class speech, pointing out that for these speakers English is their second language. (This...
Textual Features
Charlotte Smith
The heroine is a mysterious young widow embittered by her experience of a corrupt guardian and a dissipated husband who betrayed and deserted her. The play mocks literary generic conventions, including those that were CS
Textual Features
Phebe Gibbes
The heroine, who is initially called Ella, is represented as needing to read novels in order to learn about social skills, duties, and distinctions as depicted by a Brooks
[sic], a Sheridan
, a Burney
Textual Features
Eliza Kirkham Mathews
In Anecdotes of the Clairville Family three orphan children are educated by a wise maiden aunt, while Emily Wilmont, aged seven, progresses from deception to thieving to death from despair. The book incorporates an Ode...
Textual Production
Hannah Cowley
According to the memoir published here, HC
wrote rapidly, revising nothing and often not saving short poems at all. Most of her smaller poems were written without rising from the chair in which the thought...
Textual Production
Sue Townsend
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wrote an introduction for Frances Sheridan
's novel Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, 1761, in the ground-breaking Pandora
edition, 1987.
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
The third epistle performs the conventional act of praising historical women: the monarchs Elizabeth I
and Catherine the Great
of Russia for their exercise of power, the French scholar Anne Dacier
, and eleven British...
