David Garrick

CL , as the author of The Female Quixote, published Philander, A Dramatic Pastoral, which Garrick had rejected for the stage.

CL won the enduring friendship of Samuel Johnson and Samuel Richardson . (With Johnson she quarrelled at least once, and he took pains to heal the breach.) She introduced Giuseppe Baretti to Johnson, and had...

The Monthly Review called the first two volumes very judicious and truly critical.CL later wrote that the work had been received with very general favour and was translated into German...

Garrick declined to put this on stage at Drury Lane, citing a lack of dramatic spirit and interest. Published by Millar , it has a properly modest dedication, written by Johnson, to Lord Charlemont

Garrick thought it read beautifully but was lacking in action.

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...

Lennox made the adaptation at Garrick 's suggestion, following an unsuccessful one by Robert Dodsley decades earlier. An edition followed on 27 November. Lady Bute (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 's daughter) had politely...

JM says the idea of writing a comedy was first suggested to her by Hope amid the disappointments that attended the appearance of her first novel. Again she published allusively, as the Author...

The day chosen was Friday, later switched to Thursday. The meetings took place in winter, the fashionable season at Bath, and upper-class visitors were eager to attend. Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire visited during the first...

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...

She had written four of its five acts when David Garrick died, leaving her indifferent about the play and reluctant about performance.Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote an epilogue. It was published by...

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...

More said she was drawn to Montagu less by the lustre of your understanding, than by the amiable qualities of your heart. Her work went through ten editions in ten years, and laid the...

Dragon was David Garrick 's dog.

HM had her first London opening: her second tragedy, Percy, was produced by David Garrick at Covent Garden .