Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Gibbs, VicaryEditor , St Catherine Press, 1959.
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Dedications | Mary Pix | She dedicated it to Lord Scarsdale
, a Man of Pleasure more than Business, Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Gibbs, VicaryEditor , St Catherine Press, 1959. 11: 519 Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Gibbs, VicaryEditor , St Catherine Press, 1959. 11: 517-9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Congreve | Congreve never married. He had two successive long-term liaisons, the first with the actress Anne Bracegirdle
, for whose interpretation he created all his heroines of comedy, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | This oriental tragedy, set in an exotically-imagined east, opposes a sizzlingly sexual female villain, Homais (played by Elizabeth Barry
), and a model, patient, suffering but excessive heroine, Princess Selima (played by Anne Bracegirdle |
Textual Features | Mary Pix | The prologue (not by MP
) says the play is a woman's contribution to reforming the stage. Her epilogue declares a commitment to naturalism: Let Humane Nature, Humane Creatures please. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Production | Emma Marshall | She returned to literature (though she may not have thought of it as such) with In the Service of Rachel, Lady Russell
, A Story, 1893, and with Penshurst Castle in the time of... |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter |