Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere, 26 July 2012.
Connections
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Dedications | Elizabeth Griffith | The Dublin edition followed two years later. She dedicated the work to David Garrick
. |
Education | Mary Lamb | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | SL
's father, John Lee
, was a quarrelsome and impecunious actor. The year of her birth he acted at Richmond and Covent Garden
, with an interim desertion to Drury Lane
, where, however... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mariana Starke | Her mother, born Mary Hughes
, was the daughter of a London merchant, whose letters show her to have been a competent, amusing woman, interested in literature and the world. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
's grandfather, who committed public suicide by shooting himself in the west porch of Westminster Abbey on 1 February 1797, when he was a little past seventy, was Colonel Frederick or Frederic (called by... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | The senior Wilmots' circle of friends included people still remembered, like Hannah More
, David Garrick
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, and Lady Charlotte Finch
. Grey, Barbarina Charlotte, Lady. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray, 1908. 3-6 |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | The More family benefited from the patronage of several local, well-placed gentry: of Norborne Berkeley, later Baron Bottetourt
, and his nephew's wife, and of the Rev. James Stonhouse (or Stonehouse)
, a baronet. Stonhouse... |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Arthur Murphy
, Edmund Burke
, Oliver Goldsmith
, Charles Burney
, and David Garrick
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 157 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Latter | An unnamed correspondent whom Latter mentions in her first-published volume (an unmarried woman or girl) was a friend of Lady Echlin
(in turn the friend of and commentator on Samuel Richardson
). Latter, Mary. The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse. C. Pocock, 1759. 65 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | DC
's birth family had accustomed her to moving in literary, political, and theatrical circles, and her friends included Mary Lady Hervey
, David Hume
, David Garrick
, and Edward Gibbon
. Her father... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Fisher | As an eighteenth-century publisher AF
was in a small way one of the new breed of literary patrons. She and her husband helped the minor pastoral poet John Cunningham
(17291773) by publishing him both in... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | CL
won the enduring friendship of Samuel Johnson
and Samuel Richardson
. (With Johnson she quarrelled at least once, and he took pains to heal the breach.) She introduced Giuseppe Baretti
to Johnson, and had... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah Cowley | She did her best to pursue a professional friendship with David Garrick
and his wife
, but after facilitating her successful debut as a playwright in early 1776 Garrick became somewhat elusive. She had a... |
Timeline
12 January 1675: William Wycherley's comedy The Country Wife...
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12 January 1675
William Wycherley
's comedy The Country Wife probably had its first performance.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
About March 1681: Nahum Tate's re-written version of Shakespeare's...
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About March 1681
Nahum Tate
's re-written version of Shakespeare
's tragedy King Lear was staged in London; it was printed the same year.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
By May 1697: Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy The Provok'd Wife...
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By May 1697
Sir John Vanbrugh
's comedy The Provok'd Wife had its first performance.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
1734: John Williams's Method to Learn to Design...
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1734
John Williams
's Method to Learn to Design the Passions, translated from a manual by French painter Charles Le Brun
, appeared; it proved highly influential.
McMaster, Juliet. “Reading Body Language: A Game of Skill”. Persuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 90-104. 95-6, 104
1759: David Garrick finally barred non-paying servants...
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1759
David Garrick
finally barred non-paying servants from the gallery of Drury Lane Theatre
in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
14 October 1769: Garrick's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at...
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14 October 1769
Garrick
's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at Drury Lane
, where it enjoyed the record run of the century: ninety performances in one season.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1419
14 October 1769: Garrick's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at...
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14 October 1769
Garrick
's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at Drury Lane
, where it enjoyed the record run of the century: ninety performances in one season.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1419
20 June 1787: Actor John Palmer briefly opened the first...
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20 June 1787
Actor John Palmer
briefly opened the first new London theatre since 1732: the Royalty
in Well Street.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 911-12, 986
24 April 1889: The Garrick Theatre opened in Charing Cross...
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24 April 1889
The Garrick Theatre
opened in Charing Cross Road, London.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
85
Texts
Garrick, David. Correspondence. Editor Boaden, James, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831, 2 vols.
Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963, 3 vols.