Brooke, Frances

ID 52
Last Name Brooke
First Name Frances
Title
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1724-01-12
Date of Death 1789-01-23
Place of Birth Claypole
Place of Death Sleaford
VIAF URI http://viaf.org/viaf/5193747
Wikipedia Entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Brooke
Jackson Entry https://jacksonbibliography.library.utoronto.ca/author/details/brooke-frances/1795
Image URL https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Frances_Moore_Brooke_(1724-1789)_by_Read.jpg
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Author The gleaners. 1800
Author The history of Emily Montague. In four volumes. By the author of Lady Julia Mandeville. A new edition. 1800
Author Rosina. A comic opera, in two acts. By Mrs. Brooke, author of Julia Mandeville, &c. As performed at the theatre in Boston. 1801
Author Cawthorn's Minor British Theatre. Consisting of the Most Esteemed Farces and Operas. 1806
Author A Collection of Farces and Other Afterpieces, which are acted at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Hay-Market. Printed under the authority of the manager from the prompt book: selected by Mrs. Inchbald. In seven volumes. 1809
Author Rosina. A comic opera, in two acts. By Mrs. Brooke. As performed at the theatre in Boston. 1809
Author The British Novelists; with an Essay; and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Mrs. Barbauld 1810
Author The Modern British Drama. In five volumes. 1811
Author The English Drama Purified: Being a Specimen of Select Plays, in which all the passages that have appeared to the editor to be objectionable in point of morality, are omitted or altered. With prefaces and notes. By James Plumptre, B.D. Fellow of Clark-Hall, Cambridge. 1812
Author Rosina; or, Love in a cottage: a comic opera, in two acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden 1815
Author The English Drama, with prefatory remarks, biographical sketches, and notes, critical and explanatory; being the only edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business and stage directions, as performed at the Theatres Royal. Edited by W. Oxberry, Comedian. 1818
Author Specimens of British Poetesses; Selected and Chronologically Arranged by The Rev. Alexander Dyce. 1825
Author Specimens of British Poetesses; Selected and Chronologically Arranged by The Rev. Alexander Dyce, B.A. Oxford. 1827

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"Brooke, Frances" The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 52, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/person/52. Accessed 2025-11-27.

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