Record ID:
35216753 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
LC number:
  • n 79091880
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1743
  • Tiverton, England
Death:
  • 1809
  • Tiverton, England
Lived/located in:
  • London, England
Occupations:
  • playwright
  • poet
Used for:
  • Anna Matilda, 1743-1809
  • C, H. (Hannah Cowley), 1743-1809
  • Cowley (Hannah), Mrs, 1743-1809
  • Cowley (Hannah), Miss, 1743-1809
  • Cowley (Hannah), Mistress, 1743-1809
  • H. C (Hannah Cowley), 1743-1809
  • Matilda, Anna, 1743-1809
  • Mrs. Cowley, 1743-1809
  • Parkhouse, Hannah, 1743-1809
  • Cowley, Hannah Parkhouse, 1743-1809
Notes:
  • Her The belle's stratagem, 1856? t.p. (Mrs. Hannah Cowley)
  • Her Der Schoene Flüchtling, 1777 t.p. (Mistress Cowley) [inf. from InU]
  • Her Der Schulgelehrte, 1782 t.p. (Miss Cowley) [Inf. from InU]
  • Her More ways than one, 1806 p. 3 (H.C.)
  • DNB Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743–1809), playwright and poet, was born on 14 March 1743 in Tiverton...In 1772 Hannah married Thomas Cowley (1744–1797), whose mother, Mary Cowley, was a bookseller in Cockermouth, Cumberland. At an indifferent play in London, Hannah assured her husband she could do better herself: she did. She sent The Runaway anonymously to the great actor–manager, Garrick, who immediately recognized its potential and put it on at Drury Lane, on 15 February 1776. With Sarah Siddons in the starring role, it was a ‘smash hit’...Hannah Cowley was also a successful poet. Written under the pseudonym of Anna Matilda, her poetic bantering with Robert Merry in The World attracted a wide readership but was harshly condemned with the work of the rest of the ‘Della Cruscans’ by Robert Gifford, in The Baviad...
Local system number:
  • abv04061358
  • (AuCNL)189384
  • 000000217821
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng DLC OCoLC MWA DLC ANL
Authentication code:
  • kin