Henry Brooke

CB 's mother died, leaving Charlotte and her father almost the last survivors of his large family.

CB 's father, the writer Henry Brooke , to whom she had devoted herself absolutely for the ten years since the death of her mother , died in her care.

CB 's father was the Dublin poet, dramatist and novelist Henry Brooke , who became famous as a leading name in the sentimental school. He had spent some time in London (with his wife) only...

Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio...

CB was educated by her father , who was interested in Irish language and culture, and was influenced by the pedagogic ideas of Rousseau . He taught by encouraging her curiosity rather than by...

A first prologue addresses Pope , and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare (The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden (Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB 's performance in...

Sidney Bidulph was also influential. It helped shape the depiction of unhappy marriage in Lennox 's Euphemia. Though FS 's son Richard Brinsley claimed not to have read it, he borrowed from it...

John Philip Kemble wrote the following May to ask after her progress. He imagined the story melodramatically, and enquired: how many distressed damsels and valorous knights? This year Inchbald was indeed reading sentimental novels...

This is really as substantial as a novel for adults; but MH in her preface explains that she wished to bring the teaching potential of Brooke 's work to younger readers. The story follows a...

CB published at Dublin a corrected third edition in two volumes of the writings of her father, Henry Brooke (the sentimental novelist, dramatist, and poet), under the title The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke, Esq...

MH published with Joseph Johnson a book for children, Harry Clinton: A Tale for Youth, a historical work adapted from Henry Brooke 's The Fool of Quality.