Tag: Hannah Cowley

Friday Fact!

Hannah Cowley was attending the theatre, and remarked about the play, ‘Why, I could write as well myself.’ Her husband laughed at this, and in response she wrote her first play The Runaway. It was written and sent off to David Garrick within a couple of weeks, and staged at Drury Lane in 1776, running for seventeen performances.

 

  • See British Women Poets of the Romantic Era, an Anthology, 2001, ed. by Paula R. Feldman. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press

‘A woman’s lively laugh’

Summary, excerpt, and illustrations of Hannah Cowley’s 1779 comedy Who’s The Dupe?

From The Dramatic Souvenir: Being Literary and Graphical Illustrations of Shakespeare and Other Celebrated English Dramatists; Embellished with Upwards of Two Hundred Engravings on Wood.

Printed by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street, London, 1833.