HANNAH See also:

• COWLEY, ABRAHAM (1618-1667)
• HANNAH COWLEY (1743-1809)
• COWLEY, HENRY RICHARD CHARLES WELLESLEY

COWLEY (1743-1809)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English dramatist and poet, daughter of See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip Parkhouse, a bookseller at See also:

• TIVERTON

Tiverton, See also:

• DEVON, EARLS OF

Devon-See also:

• SHIRE

shire, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1743 . When about twenty-five years old she married Mr See also:

• COWLEY, ABRAHAM (1618-1667)
• COWLEY, HANNAH (1743-1809)
• COWLEY, HENRY RICHARD CHARLES WELLESLEY

Cowley, of the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India See also:

• COMPANY

Company's service, who died in 1797 . ' Some years after her See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage, being at the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre with her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband, she expressed the See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion that she could write as See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good a piece as the one being performed, and within a fortnight she had written her first See also:

• PLAY

play, The Runaway . She sent it to See also:

• GARRICK, DAVID (1717-1779)

Garrick, who produced it at See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane in 1776 . Between then and 1795 she wrote twelve more plays, all of which (with one exception) were produced at Drury Lane or Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden; and The Belle's Stratagem (1782), with one or two others, still survives in the See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of acting plays . Among other. pieces were Albina, Countess Raimond, A Bold Stroke for a Husband, More Ways than One, and A School for Greybeards, or The See also:

• MOURNING (from the verb " to mourn," to be sorrowful, 0. Eng. murnan; cf. O.H.G. mornen, Goth. maurnan, to be anxious, O.N. morna, to pine away; by some referred to root seen in Gr. jdptpva, sorrow, by others to root mer-, to die)

Mourning See also:

• BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

Bride . Mrs Cowley was the author of a number of indifferent poems, mainly See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical, and under the name of " See also:

• ANNA
• ANNA (Hindustani ana)
• ANNA, BALDASARRE

Anna See also:

• MATILDA (1046-1115)
• MATILDA (1102-1164)

Matilda," which has since become proverbial, she carried on a sentimental See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence in the See also:

• WORLD

World with See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert Merry . She died at Tiverton on the r 1 th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1809 .