Jean Marishall

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Standard Name: Marishall, Jean
Birth Name: Jean Marishall
Indexed Name: Jane Maall
Pseudonym: The Author of Clarinda Cathcart
JM , a later-eighteenth-century Scotswoman, made persistent efforts to earn her living as an author. She worked on a periodical and published in succession two novels, a comedy, and a collection of letters. This last contains what is probably her most memorable writing: detailed accounts of her protracted and painful dealings, as a writer, with publishers and theatre managers who were sceptical of her market worth.

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This began his career as theatre manager. One of a manager's duties might be considered to be the putting on of new plays, to ensure the health of the theatre of the future, but familiar...

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Marishall, Jean. A Series of Letters. C. Elliot, 1788, 2 vols.
Marishall, Jean. Sir Harry Gaylove. A. Kincaid and W. Creech, 1772.
Marishall, Jean. The History of Miss Alicia Montague. Robinson and Roberts, Richardson and Urquhart, and T. Cadell, 1767, 2 vols.
Marishall, Jean. The History of Miss Clarinda Cathcart and Miss Fanny Renton. F. and J. Noble, 1766, 2 vols.