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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 |
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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