Pitcher, Edward W. The Literary Prose of "Westminster Magazine" (1773-1785). Edwin Mellen Press.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Fisher | As an eighteenth-century publisher AF
was in a small way one of the new breed of literary patrons. She and her husband helped the minor pastoral poet John Cunningham
(17291773) by publishing him both in... |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | 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... |
| 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 | 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). |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | The heroine of this novel is unhappy in her marriage (two small children) to an ebullient and overbearing young actor. She is stuck with his theatre company in its seven-month season in Hereford (the birthplace... |
| 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 | 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 |
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