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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | Garrick
thought it read beautifully but was lacking in action. |
| 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 Setting | Ann Thicknesse | An introduction explains that this book, although called a novel, will not deal in pathetic tales of love, marvellous prodigies, or even . . . elegant flights of fancy, but only plain simple facts... |
| 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 |
| Occupation | Leah Sumbel | From the age of five Mary Stephens Davies (later Mary Wells, then LS
) acted in children's roles in Birmingham: she made her debut as one of the little princes in the Tower in... |
| Occupation | Mary Robinson | Still in her teens, Mary Darby (later MR
) was praised by the actor Thomas Hull
, and introduced to David Garrick
and Arthur Murphy
. Garrick decided to groom her as the Cordelia to... |
| 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... |
| Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's first play, the comedy The Runaway, opened at Drury Lane
, as the only new mainpiece of David Garrick
's final season; it had the successful run of seventeen nights. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 1952 Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol. 1 , Garland, p. v - xlxx. vii, x |
| Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane
under Garrick
's successor, Sheridan
. It was normal practice for light-hearted sketches to follow more serious plays to complete the evening's entertainment. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 246 |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | 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... |
| Publishing | Mary Latter | ML
wrote to David Garrick
, just before Easter, in a renewed attempt to get her tragedy, The Siege of Jerusalem, produced in London. Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 3: 927n2 |
| Publishing | Dorothea Celesia | |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret
. Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF
's local and family connections: Ralph Allen
, Lord Chesterfield |
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