Thomas Cowley

One early performance drew bigger crowds than Drury Lane, although the rival theatre that night featured Sarah Siddons on stage and the king and queen in the audience. More Ways Than One was published on...

A Hannah Parkhouse married a Thomas Cowley at Chester. If this is the future playwright, her husband had perhaps been a sea captain, and was later to work in the Stamp Office , and...

HC 's husband left England for India, having been appointed a military captain with the East India Company .

The Critical called The Belle's Stratagemthe best dramatic production of a female pen which has appeared since the days of Centlivre , to whom Mrs. Cowley is at least equal in fable and character...

Late in the year of HC 's first major stage success, her father Philip Parkhouse wrote to their patron Lord Harrowby to argue that her literary achievements merited a pension, or else a better position...