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Title Half an Hour after Supper: A New Novel
Date 9 Apr 1789
Licence Application Date 9 Apr 1789
First Performance Date 23 Mar 1789
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA821
Language English
Document Description Focuses on a family in which the daughters are engrossed in novel-reading. No author is listed with the manuscript or in the catalogue, but the printed version refers to the 'authoress'.
Theme Women in Eighteenth Century Drama  
Theatre The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket  
Theatre Manager Colman the Elder, George  
Lord Chamberlain Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Interlude  
Printed Edition Printed 1789.
Keywords family  female author  books  novel  women  
Additional Information There are a few differences between the printed and manuscript versions.
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