David Garrick

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...

The Monthly Review called the first two volumes very judicious and truly critical.CL later wrote that the work had been received with very general favour and was translated into German...

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

Garrick thought it read beautifully but was lacking in action.

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...

Lennox made the adaptation at Garrick 's suggestion, following an unsuccessful one by Robert Dodsley decades earlier. An edition followed on 27 November. Lady Bute (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 's daughter) had politely...

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...

ML wrote to David Garrick , just before Easter, in a renewed attempt to get her tragedy, The Siege of Jerusalem, produced in London.

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.

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 ). Late in...

Garrick thought her letter fine & conceited. The first editor of his correspondence, James Boaden , called her in a note this silly and impudent woman, typically folding together the...

ML was sometimes taken to the theatre as a child, which she loved. The first play she ever saw was Congreve 's tragedy The Mourning Bride, with a Harlequin pantomime to follow. She once...

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...

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...

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...