Mary Russell Mitford
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Mary Russell Mitford was an English essayist, novelist, poet and dramatist. She was born in New Alresford in Hampshire, England. She is best known for Our Village, a series of sketches of village scen
Mitford by Benjamin Haydon, 1824
Charles the First is a historical tragedy by the British writer Mary Russell Mitford. It depicts the imprisonment and trial of Charles I before his execution in 1649 following his defeat in the Englis
Mary Russell Mitford
…plays, ran for 34 performances, and Mitford's friend, Thomas Talfourd, supposed that its popularity detracted from the success of his own play, Ion. Charles the First was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain, but was played at the Surrey Theatre in 1834. The prose, to which she was driven by the need to earn a…
Charles the First