David Garrick

Dragon was David Garrick 's dog.

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. The story is set during the reign of...

The periodical's theatre reports, provided by a little court of female criticism that includes Mary Singleton and a further six virgins, deplore the displacement of Shakespeare 's original King Lear by Nahum Tate

In this third-person narrative (again well supplied with subsidiary, episodic stories) Lucy is a well-bred ideal orphan, who is discovered by Mrs Goodall, a benevolent widow of fifty-nine, living with the vulgar and unpleasant Searls...

David Garrick emphatically warned Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni against using FB as a translator again in the future.

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...

This was EG 's least successful play. Both in the theatre and in print, responses sound designed to put an impudent female newcomer in her place. Bookseller Tom Davies claimed there was a positive cabal...

Rizzo regards this play as an attempt (not unsuccessful) to placate male critics, a trial run of the unhappy insights that EG used in most of her later work. Griffith was rewarded with critical...

EG 's painful experience with Colman ended with bad feeling on both sides. She pocketed her pride and tried again to ingratiate herself with David Garrick , but with no success. He rejected her draft...

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

FB 's Virginia a Tragedy, with Odes, Pastorals, and Translations appeared in print. David Garrick and John Rich had rejected this tragedy for the stage.

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...

This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange : Anne, daughter of George II and the late Queen Caroline . The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ 's friend Martha Lovelace, later...

SS had trouble securing a publisher for this novel. Because of this, Samuel Richardsonadvised her to try her Friends by a private Subscription, which turned out a success beyond her Hopes. Subscribers included...

This play had been written at least three years earlier by Dr Humphrey Bartholomew , and given by him to SF , apparently to revise. Soon after she submitted it, Garrick expressed the opinion that...