Charles Kemble

She had submitted it for production to Charles Kemble , but although he and W. C. Macready both thought highly of it, he did not accept it for the theatre.

Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...

Anne Damer had been encouraging MB to keep working on her play as early as December 1793. In December 1795 it was complete enough for her to show it to a friend, the mathematician John Playfair

Some years before her death CB wrote her tragedy Belisarius on a story popularised by Marmontel in his Bélisaire, 1767 (which had first reached English in the same year as its French publication). Charles Kemble

MRM began her verse tragedy Foscari in 1821, after the rejection of Fiesco, and was horrified to discover that Byron had just published The Two Foscari. In late 1822...

This play was written in a bid to win a prize of £500 in a contest, sponsored by Benjamin Webster of the Haymarket , for the best modern comedy illustrative of British manners.

MRM wrote to Macready in April 1823 about this play, or the idea for it; she was afraid he did not like it. She found the subject in Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the...