Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Leah Sumbel | From the age of five Mary Stephens Davies (later Mary Wells, then LS
) acted in children's roles in Birmingham: she made her debut as one of the little princes in the Tower in... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Hannah More | She had written four of its five acts when David Garrick
died, leaving her indifferent about the play and reluctant about performance. Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky. 24 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 38 |
| Literary Setting | Ann Thicknesse | An introduction explains that this book, although called a novel, will not deal in pathetic tales of love, marvellous prodigies, or even . . . elegant flights of fancy, but only plain simple facts... |
| Literary responses | Frances Sheridan | Garrick
's reply did not take up Sheridan's points about the play's content. Instead he feigned comic alarm at a challenge from a lady, and defended his own managerial practice with lavish use of the... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | Garrick
thought it read beautifully but was lacking in action. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. 247 |
| Literary responses | Frances Brooke | Garrick
called FB
's Virginia (before it reached print) a play, which I did not like, & would not act. Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 461 A footnote in his correspondence says it was published in Dublin in 1754, but... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Montagu | The patriotism of EM
's riposte ensured its enthusiastic reception. Readers (among them a brother of Elizabeth Carter
, who refrained from enlightening him) assumed that the anonymity of this authoritative critical voice concealed a... |
| Literary responses | Mary Latter | Garrick
thought her letter fine & conceited. Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 3: 927n3 Garrick, David. Correspondence. Editor Boaden, James, H. Colburn and R. Bentley. 1: 634n |
| Literary responses | Dorothea Celesia | A prologue by William Whitehead
mentioned DC
's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics... |
| Literary responses | Frances Sheridan | David Garrick
showed his confidence in the play by agreeing to take a role secondary to that of Thomas Sheridan
as male lead. The young dramatist John O'Keeffe
long remembered the opening as delightful and... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | The Monthly Review called the first two volumes very judicious and truly critical. Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 9: 145 Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Concluded)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 19 , No. 4, pp. 416-35. 422 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | Aspects of this story were re-used by Jane Barker
(for Philinda's Story out of the Book in The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen, 1725) and by Thomas Southerne
and David Garrick
for works for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Nooth | CN
refers to several canonical English names (Pope
, Reynolds
, Garrick
, Shakespeare
, and Edmund Kean
in her first poem), and relates closely to continental women. She praises Germaine de Staël
for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Griffith | It was published the same month by Fielding and Walker
, who were also publishers of the Westminster Magazine (to which EG
was a contributor). Pitcher, Edward W. The Literary Prose of "Westminster Magazine" (1773-1785). Edwin Mellen Press. 60 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Lennox | CL
had probably begun this play immediately after the appearance of her novel Henrietta, 1759, which it reworks. Indeed, the play bore the same title as the novel when it was seen in manuscript... |
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