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LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1825.
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
CHAPTER I
Birth and Education of Mr. Sheridan. - His First Attempts
in Literature.
Page 1
CHAPTER II.
Duel with Mr. Mathews. Marriage with Miss Linley. 58
CHAPTER III.
-
Domestic Circumstances. - Fragments of Essays found
among his Papers. Comedy of "The Rivals." - An-
swer to "Taxation no Tyranny."- Farce of " St. Patrick's
Day."
114
CHAPTER IV.
The Duenna. Purchase of Drury-Lane Theatre. The
Trip to Scarborough. Poetical Correspondence with
Mrs. Sheridan.
156
CHAPTER V.
The School for Scandal.
CHAPTER VI.
208
Further Purchase of Theatrical Property.·
Memory of Garrick.
Monody to the
Essay on Metre. - The Critic.
Essay on Absentees. - Political Connections. - "The
Englishman."
Elected for Stafford.
263