George Powell

Standard Name: Powell, George

Connections

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Literary responses Catharine Trotter
This was CT 's greatest success. The young George Farquhar much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon .
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
406-7
Her association with Congreve, however, brought CT (together with Mary Pix) some hostile...
Literary responses Mary Pix
MP , again with Trotter , was attacked in Animadversions on Mr. Congreve 's Late Answer to Mr. Collier, probably by George Powell .
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
413
Publishing Mary Pix
After asking the actor George Powell to help her get it accepted at Drury Lane, she had then taken it to the other theatre, and claimed that Powell plagiarised it in his The Imposture Defeated...

Timeline

About November 1697: A tragedy by Charles Hopkins, Boadicea, Queen...

Building item

About November 1697

A tragedy by Charles Hopkins , Boadicea, Queen of Britain, starring Elizabeth Barry , scored an immense success.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

16 November 1710: George Powell brought from Bath to London...

Writing climate item

16 November 1710

George Powell brought from Bath to London a puppet show presenting the titillating History of Chast Susanna, and the 2 wicked Elders.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 233

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