Tickell family
Family circle of Richard Tickell, his wife Mary Linley, son Samuel Tickell, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and his wife Elizabeth Ann née Linley (Mary’s sister), and William Linley. Contributors from this group were active in England and India, c. 1787-1818.
- Regions: London, Middlesex
- Middlesex
- India
Elizabeth Ann Linley Sheridan
- 1754
- 1792
| Coteries | Tickell family |
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Singer and writer; wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and sister of Mary Linley Tickell.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- 1751
- 1816
| Coteries | Tickell family, and Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Playwright and politician; known for plays such as The Rivals and The School for Scandal; prominent Whig; his poetry circulated among both the Tickell family coterie, with whom he had familial ties through his wife Elizabeth Linley Sheridan, and the Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network, with whom he had social ties.
M. Tickell
| Coteries | Tickell family |
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Unidentified compiler of the Tickell family manuscript verse miscellany.
Mary Linley Tickell
- 1758
- 1787
| Coteries | Tickell family |
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Singer; wife of Richard Tickell and sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s wife Elizabeth Linley Sheridan.
Richard Tickell
- 1751
- 1793
| Coteries | Tickell family |
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Playwright and satirist; husband of Mary Linley and brother-in-law of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
British Library Add. MS 59656
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
| Archive | British Library |
Tickell family, 1787–ca. 1828.
35 poems.
Poems about love, friendship, and artistic pursuits, as well as commemorative poems about deaths in the family.