y separately published work icon Twenty Straws single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1864... 1864 Twenty Straws
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Notes

  • Adapted for the stage in 1865 and again in 1873.

Works about this Work

Eliza Winstanley, Colonial Stage Star and Our First Female Richard III Jane Woollard , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 2 May 2019;

'In December 1882, Eliza O’Flaherty died of “diabetes and exhaustion” at her lodgings in Sydney. Aged 64, Eliza lived in a brick cottage behind a dyeworks, where she had been employed as manager for two years. Her demise might seem unremarkable: a widowed, childless woman of the 19th century who had been worn out by work. But O'Flaherty was actually Eliza Winstanley, the first woman to play Richard III in an Australian theatre, and an early star of the colonial stage.' (Introduction)

Adapting the Familiar : The Penny-Weekly Serials of Eliza Winstanley on Stage in Suburban Theatres Catriona Mills , 2009 single work
— Appears in: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film , June vol. 36 no. 1 2009; (p. 37-60)

This essay examines the adaptation of the serial fiction of Eliza Winstanley into sensation melodramas for the stage in suburban (and particularly East End) theatres in London. The process of adaptation was not a straightforward one. Winstanley was an actress turned writer who drew heavily on her own theatrical background in structuring her writing. Her stage background lent her serials a strongly theatrical flavour; however, playwrights adapting her work seem to have found its inherent theatricality problematic. Examining such adaptations reveals two aspects of playwriting and staging in mid-nineteenth-century suburban theatres: the conflicted attitude of playwrights towards the serials’ theatricality and their occasionally contradictory attempts to tie their productions closely to the original texts by basing tableaux and sensation scenes directly on the serials’ illustrations.

y separately published work icon Eliza! Eliza! : The Biography of Eliza Winstanley, 1818-1882 Nance Irvine , Canberra : Mulini Press , 1997 Z148308 1997 single work biography
Australia for Family Reading : The Novels of Eliza Winstanley Eric Irvin , 1978 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 38 no. 2 1978; (p. 207-222)
y separately published work icon Eliza! Eliza! : The Biography of Eliza Winstanley, 1818-1882 Nance Irvine , Canberra : Mulini Press , 1997 Z148308 1997 single work biography
Australia for Family Reading : The Novels of Eliza Winstanley Eric Irvin , 1978 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 38 no. 2 1978; (p. 207-222)
Adapting the Familiar : The Penny-Weekly Serials of Eliza Winstanley on Stage in Suburban Theatres Catriona Mills , 2009 single work
— Appears in: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film , June vol. 36 no. 1 2009; (p. 37-60)

This essay examines the adaptation of the serial fiction of Eliza Winstanley into sensation melodramas for the stage in suburban (and particularly East End) theatres in London. The process of adaptation was not a straightforward one. Winstanley was an actress turned writer who drew heavily on her own theatrical background in structuring her writing. Her stage background lent her serials a strongly theatrical flavour; however, playwrights adapting her work seem to have found its inherent theatricality problematic. Examining such adaptations reveals two aspects of playwriting and staging in mid-nineteenth-century suburban theatres: the conflicted attitude of playwrights towards the serials’ theatricality and their occasionally contradictory attempts to tie their productions closely to the original texts by basing tableaux and sensation scenes directly on the serials’ illustrations.

Eliza Winstanley, Colonial Stage Star and Our First Female Richard III Jane Woollard , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 2 May 2019;

'In December 1882, Eliza O’Flaherty died of “diabetes and exhaustion” at her lodgings in Sydney. Aged 64, Eliza lived in a brick cottage behind a dyeworks, where she had been employed as manager for two years. Her demise might seem unremarkable: a widowed, childless woman of the 19th century who had been worn out by work. But O'Flaherty was actually Eliza Winstanley, the first woman to play Richard III in an Australian theatre, and an early star of the colonial stage.' (Introduction)

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