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Maria Susanna Cooper nee Bransby (1737-1807), was an English author and poet. In 1761 she married Reverend Samuel Cooper. Her works include: Letters Between Emilia and Harriet (1762), The Wife; or, Caroline Herbert (1762), The Exemplary Mother; or, Letters Between Mrs. Villars and her Family (1769), The Daughter; or, The History of Miss Emilia Royston, and Miss Harriet Ayres (1775), The History of Fanny Meadows: In a Series of Letters (1775), Jane Shore to her Friend: A Poetical Epistle (1776) and Benigna and Malevola: A Moral Tale (1793).
In this extraordinary and revealing book Emily Herbert talks with friends and celebrities to reveal the heartbreaking true story of how Caroline Flack crashed from the pinnacle of fame and success to a lonely and tragic death.
As Master of the Revels Sir Henry Herbert was responsible for licensing and censoring plays from 1623 to 1642 and from 1660 to 1673. This completely new edition of his records includes many fresh documents, as well as a comprehensive introduction including a new biography of Sir Henry, an account of the strange and complicated history of his private papers, and the fullest description available of his activities as Master of the Revels. The edition will be an essential refence work for literary scholars and theatre historians.
Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the ‘South Asian Muslim’ have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and particularly since the events of September 11, 2001. Here we find the first book-length critical analysis of these representations of Muslims from South Asia and its diaspora in literature, the media, culture and cinema. Contributors contextualize these depictions against the burgeoning post-9/11 artistic interest in Islam, and also against cultural responses to earlier crises on the subcontinent such as Partition (1947), the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war and secession of Bangladesh, the 1992 Ayodhya riots , the 2002 Gujarat genocide an...