Locked in a Room with a Pile of Anchovy Sandwiches, Two Bottles of Claret and Act III of ‘The Critic’
David Edgar, 27 November 1997
A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
by Fintan O’Toole.
Granta, 516 pp., £20, October 1997,1 86207 026 1 Show More
by Fintan O’Toole.
Granta, 516 pp., £20, October 1997,
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Life
by Linda Kelly.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 366 pp., £25, April 1997,1 85619 207 5 Show More
by Linda Kelly.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 366 pp., £25, April 1997,
Sheridan’s Nightingale: The Story of Elizabeth Linley
by Alan Chedzoy.
Allison and Busby, 322 pp., £15.99, April 1997,0 7490 0264 6 Show More
by Alan Chedzoy.
Allison and Busby, 322 pp., £15.99, April 1997,
“... to report that O’Toole’s was the rehash, but the Granta puff has it the right way round, while Alan Chedzoy’s life of the first Mrs Sheridan (the noted soprano and beauty Elizabeth Linley) is more boisterously entertaining than either of them. The subject of all this feverish activity was born in Ireland to a theatrical father and moved with his ... ”
