Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press.
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Wealth and Poverty | Anna Williams | David Garrick
put on a benefit performance at Drury Lane Theatre
for a Gentlewoman of Learning, distressed by blindness, that is AW
. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press. 1: 124 and n3 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Hatton | The collection shows the poet as sensitive to the influences of canonical, that is fairly recent male, poetry. The dedication quotes Pope
; the Address to the Public says that not thirst of Fame but... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Brooke | This novel became notorious for its hostile portrait of Garrick
. It also complains of the lack of outlets for new plays, attacks Town and Country Magazine for its Tete-a-Tete feature of gossip or scandal... |
Textual Production | Hannah More | |
Textual Production | Hannah More | She had worked on it that spring, sending it one act at a time to David
and Eva Maria Garrick
, who were trenchantly and helpfully critical. David wrote a prologue and epilogue. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 34 |
Textual Production | Hannah More | HM
probably gave up the theatre (both writing for it and attending plays) less because of the loss of David Garrick
or the conflict with Hannah Cowley
than because of her religious belief, which presented... |
Textual Production | Hannah More | More said she was drawn to Montagu less by the lustre of your understanding, than by the amiable qualities of your heart. More, Hannah. Essays on Various Subjects. J. Wilkie, T. Cadell. prelims |
Textual Production | Hannah More | Dragon was David Garrick
's dog. |
Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | In Garrick
's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman
. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35. 24 |
Textual Production | Carola Oman | After doingDavid Garrick in 1958, CO
published Ayot Rectory, a biography of the unknown Mary (Sneade) Brown
(1780-1858). British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1967 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | Many of EG
's letters to Garrick
survive on film among Papers of David Garrick at the Victoria and Albert Museum
. A few of her holograph letters to other people are at Harvard
. |
Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | Lennox made the adaptation at Garrick
's suggestion, following an unsuccessful one by Robert Dodsley
decades earlier. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. 259 |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
wrote an elegy for David Garrick
after his death on 20 January 1779. Feminist Companion Archive. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | They accompanied in performance all that remains of David Garrick
's ode written for his Shakespeare Jubilee of September 1769. After the Stratford performance the masque went on tour. Clements, Andrew. “Carol Ann Duffy’s life of Shakespeare tops a wigs’ n ’breeches blast from the past”. The Guardian, p. Review 29. |