Athenæum. J. Lection.
744 (1842):110
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Textual Features | Georgina Munro | A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes. Athenæum. J. Lection. 744 (1842):110 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Performance of text | Hannah More | HM
had her first London opening: her second tragedy, Percy, was produced by David Garrick
at Covent Garden
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 133 |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | The More family benefited from the patronage of several local, well-placed gentry: of Norborne Berkeley, later Baron Bottetourt
, and his nephew's wife, and of the Rev. James Stonhouse (or Stonehouse)
, a baronet. Stonhouse... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
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 |
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. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 37 Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky. 24 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 38 |
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. |
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... |
Occupation | Anna Miller | 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... |
Publishing | Jean Marishall | 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. Marishall, Jean. A Series of Letters. C. Elliot. 2: 195 |
Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | Garrick
declined to put this on stage at Drury Lane, citing a lack of dramatic spirit and interest. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. 157 |
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