Richard Cumberland

Standard Name: Cumberland, Richard

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Dedications	Anna Maria Mackenzie	AMM made her only use of a pseudonym, Ellen of Exeter, to publish another gothic Minerva Press novel, The Neapolitan, or The Test of Integrity, dedicated to the dramatist Richard Cumberland . Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 684
Education	Anna Eliza Bray	Miss Wrather was both her godmother and cousin. She later remembered her teacher's strict discipline and her own complete lack of interest in her studies; she recalls as well crying herself to sleep at night...
Literary responses	Catherine Gore	Reviews, like that in the Athenæum, were good in the main, and singled out the dialogue for praise even if critical of the character drawing, the plotting, or the level of finish. The Times...
Literary responses	Charlotte Lennox	The audience was huge: the theatre took in £234, nine shillings, one of the biggest takes of the month. But it included a cabal who hissed and catcalled, being either provoked by the playwright's gender...
Literary responses	Hannah More	Percy was a great hit, with twenty-one performances, and 4,000 copies sold by March 1777. HM made £600 from it in the theatre, and £150 from Cadell for the copyright. She thought, however, the public...
Textual Features	Maria Riddell	MR 's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill (the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (St...
Textual Production	Elizabeth Thomas	Elizabeth Thomas signed the introduction by her former pseudonym, Martha Homely. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 240 Penruddock is an actual village in Cumberland, with a big house called Penruddock Hall, while spendthrift Roderick Penruddock was the...
Textual Production	Lady Caroline Lamb	An odd spin-off from LCL 's desire to make herself into a professional writer was her project for a pocket diary or almanac. These ephemeral publications were repositories of useful information of many kinds as...

Timeline

19 January 1771

The best-known of Richard Cumberland 's dozen plays, The West Indian, opened in Londonto the greatest applause imaginable.

The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

4.3: 1524

By 22 July 1797

William Beckford published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.

Beckford, William. Azemia. Sampson Low, 1797, 2 vols.

1: 21; 2: 43, 61, 236ff

Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.

2nd ser. 20 (1797): 470

1799

The year after Mary Alcock (sister of the playwright Richard Cumberland ) died, one of her nieces published her Poems, to which Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More , among others, subscribed.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

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