Harriet Pye Esten

Standard Name: Esten, Harriet Pye

Used Form: Harriet Bennett Pye, later Esten

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Anna Maria Bennett	Her daughter Harriet Bennett Pye, later Esten , had a successful career as an actress.
Family and Intimate relationships	Anna Maria Bennett	AMB 's daughter Harriet married, in 1784, a naval lieutenant, James Esten; they had two children. She made her theatre debut at Bristol two years later, probably under her mother's influence, and went on to...
Occupation	Anna Maria Bennett	AMB and her daughter were joint managers of the Theatre Royal at Edinburgh. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993. 108
Textual Features	Mary Julia Young	MJY 's poem, in fast-moving heroic couplets, opens with Genius invoking the aid of Fancy. Fancy insists that the most beautiful and versatile of the muses is Thalia (who presides over comedy). After urging the...
Textual Production	Susanna Blamire	At some time after early 1791, in On Collins ' Ode to the Passions as Recited by Mrs. Esten, SB represented the spirit of Poetry as neglected and moping, without an audience, until the...

The actress Harriet Pye Esten (daughter of novelist Anna Maria Bennett ) gave a highly successful recitation at Covent Garden Theatre of William Collins 's Ode on the Passions.

Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.

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