Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol.
1
, Garland, 1979, p. v - xlxx. v
Thomas Cowley
Standard Name: Cowley, Thomas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Hannah 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cowley | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cowley | HC
's husband
left England for India, having been appointed a military captain with the East India Company
. |
| Literary responses | Hannah Cowley | 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... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Hannah Cowley | 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... |
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