Frances Sheridan

With her husband CM lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan after she had become a writer. She subscribed to Elizabeth Carter 's translation of Epictetus . Of her radical friends Thomas Hollis

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 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...

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...

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...

RBS , son of the novelist and playwright Frances Sheridan , and later a playwright and theatre manager himself, was born at 12 Dorset Street, Dublin.

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...

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

While working for the Featherstones, Sydney Owenson met Thomas Moore at a party given above his parents' grocery shop in Aungier Street, Dublin. She gained access to Ireland's bluestocking circle through Alicia or Alice Lefanu

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...

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

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. The love-triangle of Williams's Julia is...

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...

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...