Frances Sheridan

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...

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...

Lord Jersey attempted to sabotage the first concert before it happened by encouraging a family member to hold a competing event on the same day.AT 's father then tried to stop the concert...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

ST wrote an introduction for Frances Sheridan 's novel Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, 1761, in the ground-breaking Pandora edition, 1987.

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

Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi

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...