Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
John O'Keeffe
Standard Name: O'Keeffe, John
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Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | On her father
's death AOK
applied to the Royal Literary Fund
, which granted her £25. For the Fund she estimated her lifetime literary earnings for herself as not more than £200. This estimate... |
Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
was awarded a pension from the Crown of £50 a year: half, that is, what her father
had been receiving from the same source at the time of his death. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John O'Keeffe |
Travel | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
set out on a six-week seaside holiday with her father
and her surviving brother at West Lulworth in Dorset. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John O'Keeffe |
Textual Production | Adelaide O'Keeffe | |
Textual Production | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
edited her father's O'Keeffe
's Legacy to his Daughter, Being the Poetical Works of the Late John O'Keeffe, Esq., the Dramatic Author: his poetical works, with her memoirs of him prefixed. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen. 2: 382 Athenæum. J. Lection. 335 (1834): 240 |
Textual Production | Susanna Haswell Rowson | SHR
often employed her pen as a professional, to meet some need for ephemera. Several songs of hers appeared alone in single-sheet format during the 1790s, often undated. I never will be married and I'm... |
Author summary | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
was first heard of by name in 1804 as a writer of highly successful verse for children; she had already in all probability edited her father
's dramatic works. She went on to do... |
Occupation | Adelaide O'Keeffe | On her return from schooling in France, AOK
began working as amanuensis to her father
, then at the height of his fame. Link, Frederick M., and John O’Keeffe. “Introduction”. The Plays of John O’Keeffe, edited by Frederick M. Link and Frederick M. Link, Garland, p. 1: x - lix. xiii |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | AO
's novels, which formed a comparatively minor part of her output, had an impact beyond the rest of her work. Literary historian Gary Kelly
notes that when they were new they commanded among the... |
Literary responses | Anna Maria Porter | AMP
was, with her sister, one of those praised by John O'Keeffe
in his poem Female Authors, Being an Answer to a Lady, who asserted, that by transmigration the soul of Shakespeare
lived in the... |
Literary responses | Jane Porter | JP
was, with her sister
, one of those praised by John O'Keeffe
in his poem Female Authors, Being an Answer to a Lady, who asserted, that by transmigration the soul of Shakespeare
lived in... |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | Bibliographer James Raven
notes a crescendo in novelistic echoes of FB
's works during the 1780s. Burney's brother Charles
, for instance, noted borrowings from both Evelina and Cecilia in his review for the Monthly... |
Literary responses | Frances Sheridan | David Garrick
showed his confidence in the play by agreeing to take a role secondary to that of Thomas Sheridan
as male lead. The young dramatist John O'Keeffe
long remembered the opening as delightful and... |
Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | SFG
's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft
can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide O'Keeffe |
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Texts
Link, Frederick M., and John O’Keeffe. “Introduction”. The Plays of John O’Keeffe, edited by Frederick M. Link and Frederick M. Link, Garland, 1981, p. 1: x - lix.
O’Keeffe, Adelaide, and John O’Keeffe. “Memoirs”. O’Keeffe’s Legacy to his Daughter, edited by Adelaide O’Keeffe and Adelaide O’Keeffe, G. Whittaker, 1834, p. x - xxxv.
O’Keeffe, John. O’Keeffe’s Legacy to his Daughter. Editor O’Keeffe, Adelaide, G. Whittaker, 1834.
O’Keeffe, John. The Dramatic Works of John O’Keeffe, Esq. printed for the author by T. Woodfall, 1798.