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Thread #10325 Message #4179031
Posted By: and e
12-Aug-23 - 11:40 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Riley's Daughter / Reilly's Daughter
Subject: RE: Origin: Riley's Daughter / Reilly's Daughter
Van Diemen's land : an operatic drama, in three acts / by W. T. Moncrieff,
Esq. author of Monsieur Tonson...&c. ; printed from the acting copy, with remarks,
biographical and critical...
Publication date [18--?]
Publisher London : John Cumberland, 2, Cumberland Terrace, Camden New Town [London]
See here: https://archive.org/details/vandiemenslandop0000monc/page/72/mode/2up?q=%22landlady+proves+kind+to+me%22
Although not dated, the play would have been performed a year or two before appearing in the Australian newspaper.
So this gets this fragment in the play to 1829 or 1830.