John O'Keeffe

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

AOK was sent, by her father and with her brothers, to Mrs Reubell's school, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.

On her return from schooling in France, AOK began working as amanuensis to her father , then at the height of his fame.

AOK set out on a six-week seaside holiday with her father and her surviving brother at West Lulworth in Dorset.

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.

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.

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.

John O'Keeffe 's Dramatic Works were published in four volumes by Longman , probably edited by AOK .

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.

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...

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...