John Genest

Standard Name: Genest, John

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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 Catharine Trotter
Genest liked this no better than CT 's other plays, finding it unnatural. Recent commentators have in this case been no more favourable, Nancy Cotton finding it priggish and Robert Humesentimental mush.
qtd. in
Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang, 1986.
89
Literary responses Maria Theresa Kemble
First Faults received a condescending review in the June number of the Monthly Mirror. It was, however, enthusiastically welcomed in a poem by Martha Hale , who encouraged MTK to emulate playwright, actress, and...
Literary responses Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's plays were admired by Maria Edgeworth , Joanna Baillie , and Felicia Hemans , though John Genest (in Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 1832), judged them dull.
Textual Features Catharine Trotter
In her dedication CT again complained of the difficulties faced by women, not only in the world of the theatre but in any attempt to distinguish themselves. In her printed preface she voiced her dislike...

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