Engraving of John Bernard John Bernard (1756 in Portsmouth, England - 29 November 1828 in London)Franklin Graham (1902) Histrionic Montreal: Annals of the Montreal stage, with biographical and critical notices of the plays and players of a century, John Lovell & Son, Montreal was an English actor and biographer. He was the author of Retrospections of the Stage (1830) and Retrospections of America, 1797-1811.John Bernard (1830) Retrospections of the Stage Vol. 1, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, London He acted in a number of plays with Mary Ann Duff.
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Joseph Norton Ireland (1882) Mrs. Duff, James R. Osgood and Co., Boston His son, William Bayle Bernard, was a playwright and critic, and edited editions of his Retrospections.
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Dorothea Herbert (c.1767-1829) was an Irish diarist and poet. Her Retrospections, first published in two volumes in 1929-30, contain local accounts of life in the late eighteenth century, but are soon overshadowed by her unrequited passion for John Roe, heir to Rockwell near Knockgrafton, another of her father's parishes. She was the eldest daughter of Rev.
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Nicholas Herbert, rector of Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland. In spite of increasing isolation, depression and derangement, she wrote plays, novels and other works, none of which can be accounted for. Her Volume of Poetry, however, has survived; it, along with her Journal Notes (a continuation of her Retrospections), have recently been published as a biography by historian Dr. Frances Finnegan.
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240Google Book (1837) Thomas, Joeseph- The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, 2010, p. 257, Google Books (1839) Porter, Charlotte Endymion, Shakespeariana - Volume 2 Shakespeare Society of New York - 1885 p. 548, Google Book (1840) Bigelow, John-Retrospections of an Active Life 1867-1871, 1909, p. 234, Google Book (1840) Landman, Isaac-The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume 2, 2009, p.
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Chapman was born in New York City on March 2, 1862."Retrospections." In John Jay Chapman and his Letters, De Wolfe Howe (ed.), Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. He was the son of Henry Grafton Chapman Jr. (1833–1883), a broker who became president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Eleanor Kingsland Jay (1839–1921). His paternal grandmother, Maria Weston Chapman, was one of the leading campaigners against slavery and worked with William Lloyd Garrison on The Liberator.
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The Dyke sisters made their first appearance in 1809, at a Dublin theatre and were described as "remarkable for their beauty and winning disposition." While Mary was performing in Dublin, she met Irish poet Thomas Moore who proposed to her but was rejected as Mary had already formed an attachment to the man who became her husband. Moore turned his attention to her sister Elizabeth whom he married soon after. Mary Ann married in her sixteenth year John R. Duff (1787–1831),John Bernard (1887) Retrospections of America, 1797–1811, Harper and Brothers, New York an Irish actor.
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