British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses
of political and cultural agitation. Using a number of sources-diaries, letters, silver-fork …

By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the
start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of …

The conversation parties of the bluestockings, held to debate contemporary ideas in
eighteenth-century Britain, were vital in encouraging female artistic achievement and …

Arguing for renewed attention to covert same-sex-oriented writing (and to authorial intention
more generally), this study explores the representation of female and male homosexuality in …

Abstract Maria Edgeworth's 1801 novel Belinda, often interpreted as upholding conventional
mores and standards of feminine behavior, subverts two key tenets of eighteenth-century …

Collections of printed theatre-related ephemera—playbills, newspaper cuttings, tickets, and
engravings—constitute a major source of information about the Georgian theatre. This article …

Hannah Cowley (1743–1809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an
eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a …

Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts
during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how …

From the late 1780s and well into the 1840s, Mary her comedy Fashionable Friends, to
which Baillie contributed Berry (1763-1852) was an influential blue stocking in London …

This Element looks at the art of the actress in the eighteenth century. It considers how visual
materials across genres, such as prints, portraits, sculpture, costumes, and accessories …