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
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...
Education
Adelaide O'Keeffe
AOK
was sent, by her father
and with her brothers, to Mrs Reubell's school, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
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
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
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
Family and Intimate relationships
Adelaide O'Keeffe
The retired dramatist John O'Keeffe
, Adelaide
's father, died at Southampton. Apart from his blindness he remained in robust health until just before his death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John O'Keeffe
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.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
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
John O'Keeffe
's Dramatic Works were published in four volumes by Longman
, probably edited by AOK
.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Adelaide O'Keeffe
AOK
's father, John O'Keeffe
, was an actor, an operatic composer, and the author of fifty plays (mostly musicals and farces). Until the mid-1790s his work was highly popular. AOK
described him as a...
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...
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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.