Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xviii.
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Performance of text | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's comedy The Double Mistake opened at Covent Garden Theatre
: in contrast to her first effort it ran well, bringing her several benefits and a royal command performance. Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xviii. xxx Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's comedy A Wife in the Right opened at Covent Garden Theatre
, only to be damned for Edward Shuter
's bad acting and fluffing his lines (he was drunk on stage). The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 1567 |
Performance of text | Mariana Starke | MS
's three-act verse tragedy The Widow of Malabar opened at Covent Garden
; it was printed with her name that year. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1250-1 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Occupation | Leah Sumbel | She received rave reviews for this first appearance, as Mrs Cadwallader in The Author (a burlesque portrayal of a woman writer). Later that summer she swashbuckled as Macheath in a famous transvestite production of Gay |
Occupation | David Garrick | Garrick proposed to charge full price, instead of half, for arrivals after the third act. Riots followed at Covent Garden
(the other licensed theatre) the next month. |
Occupation | David Garrick | Covent Garden
imitated Drury Lane one month later. |
Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | AK
made her English operatic debut at Covent Garden Theatre
, London, again singing the title role in Bellini
's Norma. Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen. 555 |
Occupation | Mary Robinson | MR
, under a heavy cloak of anonymity, opened her last theatre season, at Covent Garden Theatre
(playing in the mainpiece but apparently not in Frances Brooke
's Rosina, which followed it). Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 13: 35 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 582 |
Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | AK
sang the title role in Rossini
's Semiramide at Covent Garden Theatre
in London. Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen. 606 |
Occupation | Mary Robinson | MR
made her last known London stage appearance, as Victoria in Hannah Cowley
's Bold Stroke for a Husband at Covent Garden
. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 13: 35 |
Literary responses | Mary Latter | John Stede
, the Covent Garden Theatre
prompter, in his judgement later printed by the indignant author, said the play was of a preposterous Length, with many over-long speeches. It was a mere collection of... |
Leisure and Society | Frances Trollope | While the siblings were neither connected to the upper ranks of society, nor dining with figures such as Beau Brummel
, Frances soon exhibited the wit favoured by dandies and other members of the monied... |
Leisure and Society | Anna Margaretta Larpent | The Paine book was Rights of Man. The kangaroo was the first ever brought to England. In the Polygraphic Exhibition Joseph Booth
was displaying mechanical reproductions of oil paintings at Schomberg House, Pall Mall... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Latter | ML
formed a friendship and patronage relation with John Rich
, licensee of Covent Garden
, when he made a visit to Reading, on which occasion he lent her five guineas within half an hour... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fenwick | EF
arranged for her daughter Eliza Anne
to give lessons in the Mocatta household in drawing and singing. Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press. 119 |
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