David Garrick

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Standard Name: Garrick, David

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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...
Publishing Susan Smythies
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.
Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel. Samuel Richardson: A Biography. Clarendon.
464
Subscribers included...
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
DC wrote from Genoa to David Garrick in England, submitting a manuscript of a blank-verse tragedy which she had based on Voltaire 's Tancrède, 1760. Though she had entertained Garrick at her house, she...
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
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
Publishing Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Gooch must have spent heavily on advertising. From 5 April until 5 May front-page advertisements for her book appeared in the London Star and other papers. They took up an unusual number of column-inches, since...
Publishing Elizabeth Griffith
EG finished drafting a comedy, original not adapted, which, despite a prolonged battle with David Garrick , never reached either stage or print.
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.
130
Publishing Frances Sheridan
FS wrote to David Garrick from Blois in France about her draft comedy A Journey to Bath.
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford.
479n
Publishing Charlotte Lennox
CL , as the author of The Female Quixote, published Philander, A Dramatic Pastoral, which Garrick had rejected for the stage.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, pp. 317-44.
327
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 1, pp. 36-60.
47-8
Publishing Frances Sheridan
She had written it in poverty and occasional ill health, but she boasted that Garrick had actually solicited her for a sight of her manuscript. She accordingly read it aloud to him herself.
Shellenberg, Betty A. “Frances Sheridan Reads John Home: Placing <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Sidney Bidulph</span> in the Republic of Letters”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
13
, No. 4, pp. 561-77.
565, 567
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...
Reception Frances Brooke
David Garrick emphatically warned Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni against using FB as a translator again in the future.
Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
461
Reception Elizabeth Griffith
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...

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