John Rich

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

EH worked on this during summer 1720. The title-page said 1721, and bore her name. The work is a translation, or more precisely a paraphrase, from the French of Edmé Boursault

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...