David Garrick

EG finished drafting a comedy, original not adapted, which, despite a prolonged battle with David Garrick , never reached either stage or print.

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...

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...

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...

It was published the same month by Fielding and Walker , who were also publishers of the Westminster Magazine (to which EG was a contributor). An Advertisement attributes the idea of adapting Goldoni to...

The Dublin edition followed two years later. She dedicated the work to David Garrick .

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 .

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...

The Duchess of Devonshire knew virtually everyone in London society. Set apart was the Devonshire House Circle: a clique of wealthy and fashionable Whigs with rakish or bohemian leanings, who even spoke in their...

As an eighteenth-century publisher AF was in a small way one of the new breed of literary patrons. She and her husband helped the minor pastoral poet John Cunningham (1729–1773) by publishing him both in...

SF sent David Garrick the draft of an unfinished play; it remains unpublished, unperformed, and lost.

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...

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

They accompanied in performance all that remains of David Garrick 's ode written for his Shakespeare Jubilee of September 1769. After the Stratford performance the masque went on tour.