Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere.
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 | 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 | 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 | 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
. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Lyster, GertrudeEditor , John Murray, 1908. 3-6 |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | The Duchess of Devonshire knew virtually everyone in London society. Set apart was the Devonshire House Circle: a clique of wealthy and fashionable Whigs with rakish or bohemian leanings, who even spoke in their... |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Burney | FB
made friends in the older generation as well as her own. The whole Burney family loved and were loved by David Garrick
. Sir Joshua Reynolds
, who lived barely fifty yards away from... |
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 | 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 | Dorothea Celesia | |
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 | 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 |
Timeline
12 January 1675
William Wycherley
's comedyThe Country Wife probably had its first performance.
About March 1681
Nahum Tate
's re-written version of Shakespeare
's tragedyKing Lear was staged in London; it was printed the same year.
By May 1697
Sir John Vanbrugh
's comedyThe Provok'd Wife had its first performance.
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.
1759
14 October 1769
Garrick
's afterpieceThe Jubilee opened at Drury Lane
, where it enjoyed the record run of the century: ninety performances in one season.
14 October 1769
Garrick
's afterpieceThe Jubilee opened at Drury Lane
, where it enjoyed the record run of the century: ninety performances in one season.
20 June 1787
Actor John Palmer
briefly opened the first new London theatre since 1732: the Royalty
in Well Street.
24 April 1889
The Garrick Theatre
opened in Charing Cross Road, London.