Escott, Angela, and Isobel Grundy. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. 24 Oct. 2002.
Thomas Harris
Standard Name: Harris, Thomas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Elizabeth Inchbald | Thomas Harris
was manager of the Covent Garden company. |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | She was working on a farce again in December 1779, and a year after that she submitted another one, on the topic of polygamy, to Harris
, who rejected it. Yet another farce, The Ancient... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | This may have been the play she had submitted to Thomas Harris
several years previously. Her friend Francis Twiss
helped her with his critique of it in manuscript. The choice of title was not her... |
| Publishing | Hannah Cowley | It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular. |
| Publishing | Anna Maria Porter | Thomas Harris
of Covent Garden Theatre
visited AMP
to compliment her on a play, The Runaways, which she had apparently submitted to him. Davis, Tracy C. “The Sociable Playwright and Representative Citizen”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 15-34. 16 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | A comedy by EI
was licensed, but nothing more was heard of it after this, although Harris
had advanced her twenty pounds on it. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987. 31 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | This play provides a good example of Inchbald's meticulous attention to her working terms and conditions. Harris
provided her with a rough translation of the original, Kotzebue
's Das Schreibepult (The Writing Desk)... |
| Textual Production | Frances Burney | Thomas Harris
, manager of Covent Garden Theatre
, informed FB
's brother Charles
that he planned to stage her comedy Love and Fashion in March 1800. Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering, 1995, 2 vols. 1: 105 |
| Violence | Elizabeth Inchbald | According to EI
's friend John Taylor
, Harris
(who often made sexual advances towards his players) once attempted to rape her. She managed to escape after she grasped his hair and pulled with such... |
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