Modern Wives

Modern Wives is a play by E. Warren

Not to be confused with the comedy The Modern Wife, or the Virgin Her Own Rival by John Stevens (1744)

The original text

No information on either the play or the author can be found beyond references to performance some time in 1887 and the South African performance noted below. One source may suggest this could have been the work of journalist and author of works on domestic matters, Eliza Warren (1810-1900)[1]; while another source says the text had been "Ttaken from A. Velabrague". Both give the date of the work as 1887.

Performance history in South Africa

1900: Performed by the Herbert Flemming Company as part of an extended season in the Opera House, Cape Town.

Sources

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: p.614[2]

Tearsheets on British and U.S. Stage Productions, 1818-1933 Inventory, Toronto Public Library[3]

Marianne Van Remoortel. 2015. Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press Springer[4]

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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