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Author Bataille, Robert R., 1940-

Title The writing life of Hugh Kelly : politics, journalism, and theater in late-eighteenth-century London / Robert R. Bataille
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 206 pages)
Contents Beginnings -- Newspaperman and Essayist: The Gazetteer and "The Babler" -- Kelly in Transition: Thespis and Memoirs of a Magdalen -- From Journalism to the Theater: The Public Ledger and David Garrick -- False Delicacy and Its Reception -- Confrontation with the Wilkites -- Friends, Enemies, and the Damnation of A Word to the Wise -- Politics after A Word to the Wise and the Staging of Clementina -- Politics before and after Clementina and Departure from the Public Ledger -- The General Evening Post, Kelly as Barrister, and The School for Wives -- The Aftermath of The School for Wives and The Romance of an Hour -- The Final Year: The Man of Reason, Law Career, and Fatal Illness -- Epilogue: Kelly in His Own Time
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index
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Subject Kelly, Hugh, 1739-1777.
SUBJECT Kelly, Hugh, 1739-1777 fast
Subject Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Journalism -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
Dramatists, English -- 18th century -- Biography
Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Dramatists, English
Journalism
Journalists
Politics and government
Politics and literature
Theater
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056900
Subject England -- London
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585324859
9780585324852