It had played at Lincoln's Inn Fields
about a month previously, with a prologue and epilogue by Peter Motteux
(which refer to the hampering of the playwright by the movement for the reformation of the...
Publishing
Mary Davys
A Mrs. Mary D. who published in Peter Motteux
' The Gentleman's Journal a 600-word tale entitled A Gift and no Gift may well have been MD
.
Bayer, Gerd. “A Possible Early Publication by Mary Davys and Its Swiftian Afterglow”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
59
, June 2012, pp. 194-7.
Textual Features
Mary Pix
The last two acts incorporate two dialogue songs, by Durfey
and Motteux
, set to music by Eccles
.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 488-9
Timeline
January 1692-October 1694: Peter Anthony Motteux edited The Gentleman's...
Writing climate item
January 1692-October 1694
Peter Anthony Motteux
edited The Gentleman's Diary; or, The Monthly Miscellany, which combined aspects of the almanac and the periodical, and aimed particularly at women readers.
Miegon, Anna E. The Ladies Diary and the Emergence of the Almanac for Women, 1704-1753. Simon Fraser University, Sept. 2008.
78, 98-9,100, 104
October 1693: The Gentleman's Diary; or, The Monthly Miscellany...
Women writers item
October 1693
The Gentleman's Diary; or, The Monthly Miscellany (edited by Motteux
) put out an issue devoted to women, entitled The Lady's Journal.
Miegon, Anna E. The Ladies Diary and the Emergence of the Almanac for Women, 1704-1753. Simon Fraser University, Sept. 2008.