David Garrick

The Monthly Review called the first two volumes very judicious and truly critical.CL later wrote that the work had been received with very general favour and was translated into German...

Garrick 's reply did not take up Sheridan's points about the play's content. Instead he feigned comic alarm at a challenge from a lady, and defended his own managerial practice with lavish use of the...

Garrick thought it read beautifully but was lacking in action.

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...

She had written four of its five acts when David Garrick died, leaving her indifferent about the play and reluctant about performance.Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote an epilogue. It was published by...

Still in her teens, Mary Darby (later MR ) was praised by the actor Thomas Hull , and introduced to David Garrick and Arthur Murphy . Garrick decided to groom her as the Cordelia to...

The day chosen was Friday, later switched to Thursday. The meetings took place in winter, the fashionable season at Bath, and upper-class visitors were eager to attend. Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire visited during the first...

From the age of five Mary Stephens Davies (later Mary Wells, then LS ) acted in children's roles in Birmingham: she made her debut as one of the little princes in the Tower in...

HM had her first London opening: her second tragedy, Percy, was produced by David Garrick at Covent Garden .

HC 's first play, the comedy The Runaway, opened at Drury Lane , as the only new mainpiece of David Garrick 's final season; it had the successful run of seventeen nights.

HC 's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane under Garrick 's successor, Sheridan .

JM says the idea of writing a comedy was first suggested to her by Hope amid the disappointments that attended the appearance of her first novel. Again she published allusively, as the Author...

This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange : Anne, daughter of George II and the late Queen Caroline . The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ 's friend Martha Lovelace, later...

SS had trouble securing a publisher for this novel. Because of this, Samuel Richardsonadvised her to try her Friends by a private Subscription, which turned out a success beyond her Hopes. Subscribers included...

DC wrote from Genoa to David Garrick in England, submitting a manuscript of a blank-verse tragedy which she had based on Voltaire 's Tancrède, 1760. Though she had entertained Garrick at her house, she...