Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Richard Savage
Standard Name: Savage, Richard
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
| Performance of text | Sir J. M. Barrie | James Barrie
's first full-length adult play, Richard Savage (on which he collaborated with H. B. Marriott Watson
), was performed for a charity matinee at the Criterion Theatre
in London. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996. 55 |
| Performance of text | Madeleine Lucette Ryley | MLR
's five-act historical melodrama, Richard Savage
, which is based on Samuel Johnson
's biography of the talented, self-destructive poet, opened at the Lyceum
in New York. Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007. 77, 97 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Features | Sarah Chapone | This 70-page pamphlet, addressed to Parliament
, exhibits detailed knowledge of the law and of recent cases involving heiress marriage, adultery, etc. SC
finds the English law harsher to women than either ancient Roman or... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | Chetwood
(who published a number of women writers) dedicated the first, anonymous volume to the actress Anne Oldfield
. Haywood, Eliza. Love in Excess. Editor Oakleaf, David, Broadview, 1994. 35 |
| Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | This was published by Minerva
in two volumes, listing Miss Byron's four previous titles—those of A Modern Antique are not mentioned, though a couple of etceteras might signify those if not others. The title-page... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | This may have been an expanded version of the unpublished collection The Danger of Giving Way to Passion, in Five Exemplary Novels. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003. 57 |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | The full title was Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, return'd from a thirteen years slavery in America, where he had been sent by the wicked contrivances of his cruel uncle. A story founded on... |
| Textual Production | Martha Fowke | Richard Savage
's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, 1726, includes both at least nine poems by MF
(as Clio) and verses addressed to her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press, 2003. 100 |
| Textual Production | Samuel Johnson | SJ
published, anonymously, The Life of Mr. Richard Savage; his subject, a personal friend, had died on 1 August 1743. Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets. Editor Hill, George Birkbeck, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1905, 3 vols. 2: 435-6 |
| Textual Production | Ann Hatton | The dedication, to Mrs Carsgill
of Holme Lodge, Northumberland, mentions past discussions with her on the topic of the passions, and cites Johnson
's Life of Savage to prove their violence. Hatton, Ann. Deeds of the Olden Time. A. K. Newman, 1826. prelims |
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