Henry Carey (writer)
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Henry Carey was an English poet, dramatist and composer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely prai
Henry Carey, by John Faber the Younger 1729
An 1818 playbill for Chrononhotonthologos.
Eliza Haywood
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Eliza Haywood, was an English writer, actress and publisher. An increase in interest and recognition of Haywood's literary works began in the 1980s. Described as "prolific even by the standards of a p
Playwright and novelist Eliza Haywood, by George Vertue, 1725.
St. Margaret's Church, where Haywood was buried in an unmarked grave
Haymarket Theatre, where Haywood acted, beginning in the late 1720s (image: ca. 1900)
Frontispiece to The Female Spectator, Vol. 1