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Reception | Elizabeth Griffith | 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. Rizzo, Betty. “’Depressa Resurgam’: Elizabeth Griffith’s Playwriting Career”. Curtain Calls, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, Ohio University Press, pp. 120-42. 129 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | After The School for Rakes, Garrick
appeared to think he had done all for EG
that she could expect from him, and repelled a series of advances from her about a new play. By... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | 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... |
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). Pitcher, Edward W. The Literary Prose of "Westminster Magazine" (1773-1785). Edwin Mellen Press. 60 |
Dedications | Elizabeth Griffith | The Dublin edition followed two years later. She dedicated the work to David Garrick
. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | Many of EG
's letters to Garrick
survive on film among Papers of David Garrick at the Victoria and Albert Museum
. A few of her holograph letters to other people are at Harvard
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Hatton | The collection shows the poet as sensitive to the influences of canonical, that is fairly recent male, poetry. The dedication quotes Pope
; the Address to the Public says that not thirst of Fame but... |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
Publishing | Mary Jones | 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... |
Education | Mary Lamb | |
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 | Mary Latter | After receiving an epistolary withering blast of Refusal of The Siege of Jerusalem from David Garrick
, ML
sent him a further indignant letter of protest. Garrick, David. Correspondence. Editor Boaden, James, H. Colburn and R. Bentley. 1: 633 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Latter | An unnamed correspondent whom Latter mentions in her first-published volume (an unmarried woman or girl) was a friend of Lady Echlin
(in turn the friend of and commentator on Samuel Richardson
). Latter, Mary. The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse. C. Pocock. 65 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | SL
's father, John Lee
, was a quarrelsome and impecunious actor. The year of her birth he acted at Richmond and Covent Garden
, with an interim desertion to Drury Lane
, where, however... |
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