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Mid-Nineteenth-Century Drama
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Grace Darling: or the wreck at sea. D. (Adel 3 Dec 1838). Webster 6;
French 105. Also as The wreck at sea: or The fern light.
Jane Lomas: or a mother’s crime. MD. (Adel 4 Feb 1839). Webster 6.
The little back parlour. F. (EOH 17 Aug 1839). Duncombe 38; French
111.
The devil’s daughters: or hell’s belles. Ba. (Sur 4 Nov 1839).
Duncombe 39; New BT 313 as The devil’s daughters: or h_l upon
earth!
The dragon knight: or the queen of beauty! D. (Adel 18 Nov 1839 as
The knight of the dragon). Duncombe 39; New BT 311. From
Ainsworth’s Crichton.
The fortunes of Smike: or a sequel to Nicholas Nickleby. D. (Adel 2
Mar 1840). Webster 9; Mod Eng Com Th ser 1.
The serpent of the Nile: or the battle of Actium. MD. (Adel 20 Apr
1840). Duncombe 41.
Guido Fawkes: or the prophetess of Ordsall Cave! MD. (Queen’s
Manchester June 1840; EOH 24 Aug 1840). Duncombe 42. From
Ainsworth, Guy Fawkes: or the gunpowder treason.
The old curiosity shop. Ba. (Adel 9 Nov 1840). Duncombe 48; Lacy 77;
Lorenzen micro. From Dickens.
Teddy Roe. F. (Str 19 Apr 1841). Duncombe 43; Mod Eng Com Th 7;
Boston Th 7; French Minor NY 194.
The rubber of life: or St James’s and St Giles’s. D. (Str 10 May 1841).
Duncombe 43.
The miser’s daughter. Spec. (Adel 21 Oct 1842). Duncombe 45; New
BT 361; Lacy 99. From Ainsworth.
Yankee notes for English circulation. F. (Adel 24 Dec 1842).
Duncombe 46; New BT 367.
Captain Charlotte. F. (Adel 6 Mar 1843). Duncombe 46; Lacy 39.
Ondine: or the water sprite and the fire fiend. Spec. (CL 17 Apr 1843).
Duncombe 46.
Aline, the rose of Killarney. D. (Str 10 July 1843). Duncombe 47; Lacy
94.
Wanted a wife: or London, Liverpool, and Bristol. Ba (Adel 23 Oct
1843). Barth nd.
The Bohemians: or the rogues of Paris. D. (Adel 6 Nov 1843). Dicks’
BD 10. From Sue, Les mystères de Paris.
The young scamp: or my grandmother’s pet! Ba. (P’cess 27 Feb 1844).
Duncombe 49.
Martin Chuzzlewit. D. (Lyc 9 July 1844). Duncombe 50. From
Dickens.
The seven castles of the passions. D. (Lyc 21 Oct 1844). Barth nd.
Margaret Catchpole, the heroine of Suffolk: or the vicissitudes of
real life. D. (Sur 24 Mar 1845). Duncombe 52; Lacy 3. From R.
Cobbold, The history of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk girl.
The secret foe. D. (Sur 12 May 1845). Duncombe 53.
Mrs Caudle’s curtain lecture. Sk. (Lyc 10 July 1845). Duncombe 53.
Lestelle: or the wrecker’s bride. D. (Sur 21 Aug 1845). Cumberland no
427; Duncombe 54.
By royal command. Ca. (Lyc 25 Aug 1845). French 106; Dicks’ BD 11.
Clarisse: or the merchant’s daughter. D. (Adel 1 Sep 1845). Webster 11.
The cricket on the hearth. D. (Adel 31 Dec 1845). Webster 12. From
Dickens.
The sea king’s vow: or a struggle for liberty. D. (Sur 16 Feb 1846).
Duncombe 55; New BT 441.
The cabin boy. D. (Adel 9 Mar 1846). Webster 12; French 104.
Industry and indolence: or the orphan’s legacy. D. (Adel 9 Apr 1846).
Duncombe no 476.
On the tiles. F. (Sur 13 Apr 1846). Duncombe 56; Lacy no 1874.
The last kiss: or the soldier’s grave. D. (Sur 30 Apr 1846). Duncombe
56; New BT 444.
Above and below. C. (Lyc 16 July 1846). Duncombe 57.
The jockey club. Ext. (Adel 19 Oct 1846). Webster 13.
Mrs Harris. F. (Lyc 22 Oct 1846). Duncombe 57.
The hand of cards. D. (Sur 30 Dec 1846). Duncombe 57.
The battle of life. D. (Sur Jan 1847). Duncombe 57. From Dickens.
Raby Rattler: or the progress of a scamp. D. (Sur 3 Feb 1847).
Duncombe 58.
Lilly Dawson: or a poor girl’s story. D. (Sur 8 Mar 1847). Duncombe
58; Lacy no 1909.
Kissing goes by favour. F. (Sur 5 Apr 1847). Duncombe 58; Lacy no
2019.
The buffalo girls: or the female serenaders. F. (Sur 17 Apr 1847).
Duncombe 59.
The anchor of hope: or the seaman’s star. D. (Sur 19 Apr 1847).
Duncombe 59; French 111.
The rag-picker of Paris and the dress-maker of St Antoine. D. (Sur 24
June 1847). Duncombe 59; Lacy 81; French NY 108.
The idiot of the mill. D. (CL 10 Aug 1848). Duncombe 63; French nd.
Nora Creina. D. (Sur 11 Sep 1848). Duncombe 55; New BT 439; Mod
Eng Com Th 9; Boston Th 9.
Jeanette & Jeannot [sic]: or the village pride. D. (Olym 26 Oct 1848).
French 106.
The bould soger boy. F. (Olym 6 Nov 1848). Duncombe no 533;
French 111.
The lost diamonds. D. (Olym 12 Feb 1849). Duncombe 63; Lacy nd.
Family pictures. F. (M’bone 11 Mar 1849). [1849]; French 106.
Clarence Clevedon, his struggle for life or death. D. (Vic 9 Apr 1849).
Duncombe 64.
The mother’s bequest. D. (Str 7 May 1849). Duncombe 64.
The lilly of the desert. D. (Sur 28 May 1849). Dicks’ BD 3.
The white slave. F. (Vic 10 Aug 1849). Duncombe 66; Lacy no 1948.
The teacher taught. F. (SW 17 Oct 1850). Duncombe 66; Mod Eng
Com Th ser 4; Lacy 48.
A figure of fun: or the bloomer costume. F. (Str 26 Dec 1851). 1852,
[1852?].
The ragged school. D. (Str 15 Mar 1852). Duncombe nd.
A pet of the public. F. (Str 7 Nov 1853). Lacy no 180.
A struggle for gold: or the orphan of the frozen sea. D. (CL Jan 1854).
1854. Also as A struggle for gold: or a mother’s prayer.
The courier of Lyons. D. (CL July 1854). 1854; Dicks’ BD 4.
The three black seals. D. (Astley’s 25 Apr 1864). Dicks’ BD 3.
The dark glen of Ballyfoill. D. (Ipswich 28 Oct 1871). Dicks’ BD 9
(dated 1871).
Old Drury Lane: fifty years’ recollections of author, actor, and
manager. 2 vols 1881.
Attributed works
The roving tragedian. In Era Almanack for 1886.
My first engagement. In Era Almanack for 1888.
Stirling was a very prolific author; many plays are unpbd including
adaptations of Dickens’s novels. See also Nicoll 4, pp. 406–9, 612–13; 5, pp.
584, 818; Conolly, English drama, pp. 292–3; Readex Index, pp. 259–61.
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Theatrical Times 3 1848; 4 1849. [jrs]
Tom Taylor 1817–80
There is a large collection of Taylor mss in the BL and the Br Theatre
Museum.
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A trip to Kissingen. F. (Lyc 14 Nov 1844). Dicks 881.
Masks and faces: or before and behind the curtain. C. (H 20 Nov
1852). 1854; Dicks; Lacy; Rowell. With C. Reade. Played also as Peg
Woffington.
Plot and passion. D. (Olym 17 Oct 1853). Lacy 13; Dicks 1048; New
York [1869?]. With J. Lang.
Three dramas, 1854. (Masks and faces; The king’s rival; Two loves
and a life). 1854. With C. Reade.
Still waters run deep. C. (Olym 14 May 1855). Lacy 22; Dicks 1049;
Banham (1985); Boston [1856?].