Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | The senior Wilmots' circle of friends included people still remembered, like Hannah More
, David Garrick
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, and Lady Charlotte Finch
. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 3-6 |
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 | Frances Brooke | Eight months after Brooke's broadside against Garrick
, he put on a version of Lear which was slightly closer to Shakespeare. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 22 |
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... |
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... |
Publishing | Frances Brooke | |
Reception | Frances Brooke | David Garrick
emphatically warned Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
against using FB
as a translator again in the future. Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 461 |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | The periodical's theatre reports, provided by a little court of female criticism Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv |
Friends, Associates | Frances Burney | FB
made friends in the older generation as well as her own. The whole Burney family loved and were loved by David Garrick
. Sir Joshua Reynolds
, who lived barely fifty yards away from... |
Publishing | Dorothea Celesia | |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | DC
's birth family had accustomed her to moving in literary, political, and theatrical circles, and her friends included Mary Lady Hervey
, David Hume
, David Garrick
, and Edward Gibbon
. Her father... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Celesia | Garrick
took some trouble to revise her draft: cutting over-long speeches, for example. She was grateful and appreciative but, surprisingly in view of the skilful way she shifts the play's emphasis from hero to heroine... |
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... |
Reception | Susanna Centlivre | SC
hinted in A Woman's Case that her husband was upset at her threatening his livelihood with the political rashness of her dedication. The man-in-skirts role became a favourite of David Garrick
, which kept... |