Elizabeth Beverley

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Standard Name: Beverley, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth
Married Name: Elizabeth Beverley
Pseudonym: Mrs R. Beverley
Pseudonym: Mrs Elizabeth Beverley
Used Form: Mrs R. Beverley, author of The Mirror
EB 's works, all opportunistic money-raisers, are pamphlets of many different kinds, dating from the early nineteenth century. Their production was closely connected with her career as a stage performer. Some are in verse, while others draw on the genres of autobiography, allegory, sermon, and satire. Their major themes are self-publicization, and social and religious criticism of society. Some are undated, and many went through a series of allegedly new editions which are probably re-issues; almost all recycle material she had already printed.

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Textual Features Sarah Gardner
One of the lecture titles was On Myself. This hand-to-mouth exploitation of a catchy self-image resembles the sub-theatrical fare offered by other theatre women living close to the subsistence line, like Elizabeth Beverley and...

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Beverley, Elizabeth, and Thomas, printer Richardson. A Glass for Kings. Printed for the author by T. Richardson, 1821.
Beverley, Elizabeth. A Poetical Olio. Printed for the author by T. Denham, 1819.
Beverley, Elizabeth. Entertaining and Moral Poems. Printed for the authoress by B. and S. Gardiner, 1820.
Beverley, Elizabeth. Modern Times. Printed for the author, 1818.
Beverley, Elizabeth. Odd Thoughts. Printed for the authoress, 1825.
Beverley, Elizabeth. The Actress’s Ways and Means. Printed for the author by MacDonald and Son, 1818.
Beverley, Elizabeth. The Actress’s Ways and Means. Printed for the author by MacDonald and Son, 1820.
Beverley, Elizabeth. The Bee. Printed for the authoress, D. Sidney, 1827.
Beverley, Elizabeth. The Book of Variety. Printed for the author by T. Traveller, 1823.
Beverley, Elizabeth. The Indefatigable. Printed for the authoress, Wilson, 1830.
Beverley, Elizabeth. The Monmouth-Street Cap. Printed for the author by T. Denham, 1819.
Beverley, Elizabeth. Useful Subjects in Prose and Verse. Printed for the authoress, D. Sidney, 1828.
Beverley, Elizabeth. Veluti in Speculum. Printed for the authoress, 1827.