Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
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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... |
Literary Setting | Ann Thicknesse | An introduction explains that this book, although called a novel, will not deal in pathetic tales of love, marvellous prodigies, or even . . . elegant flights of fancy, but only plain simple facts... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Latter | While staying with John Rich
in London (for the second time) in 1761, ML
not only studied stagecraft to benefit her own writing, but was kept busy doing writing jobs he suggested. Aware of her... |
Publishing | Frances Brooke | FB
's Virginia a Tragedy, with Odes, Pastorals, and Translations appeared in print. David Garrick
and John Rich
had rejected this tragedy for the stage. The play had been in competition with one of the... |
Publishing | Eliza Haywood | EH
worked on this during summer 1720. The title-page said 1721, and bore her name. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003. 104 Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press, 2003. 89 Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915. 189 |
Publishing | Mary Latter | ML
published at London with her name A Miscellaneous Poetical Essay (again arranged in three parts), for which John Rich
had gathered her a hundred subscribers. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. Latter, Mary. The Siege of Jerusalem, by Titus Vespasian. C. Bathurst, 1763. xxiii |
Publishing | Mary Latter | Rich
had accepted the play for Covent Garden
and encouraged ML
to train further as a dramatist. She here ascribes good intentions to Rich, but sharp practice to the present Managers, their Adherents, and Dependants... |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | Haywood was asked by John Rich
at the beginning of this year to new modelHurst
's play, which had never been performed. She was reluctant, feeling that adaptors are always criticised and never praised... |
Textual Production | Mary Latter | Three months after the death of John Rich
, licensee of Covent Garden Theatre
, ML
finally lost hope of staging of her blank-verse tragedy The Siege of Jerusalem, by Titus Vespasian. The... |
Textual Production | Mary Latter | This play by ML
is distantly related to Tasso
's Gerusalemme liberata (as is The Siege of Jerusalem by Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
, which was privately printed in 1774). An early draft... |
Travel | Mary Latter | Theatre manager John Rich
enabled ML
to make a ten-week visit to London, staying at his house near Covent Garden Theatre
. She was back there again for a second, shorter visit at the... |
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