David Garrick

This play had been written at least three years earlier by Dr Humphrey Bartholomew , and given by him to SF , apparently to revise. Soon after she submitted it, Garrick expressed the opinion that...

ML wrote to David Garrick , just before Easter, in a renewed attempt to get her tragedy, The Siege of Jerusalem, produced in London.

The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret . Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF 's local and family connections: Ralph Allen , Lord Chesterfield

After receiving an epistolary withering blast of Refusal of The Siege of Jerusalem from David Garrick , ML sent him a further indignant letter of protest.

Gooch must have spent heavily on advertising. From 5 April until 5 May front-page advertisements for her book appeared in the London Star and other papers. They took up an unusual number of column-inches, since...

FS wrote to David Garrick from Blois in France about her draft comedy A Journey to Bath.

EG finished drafting a comedy, original not adapted, which, despite a prolonged battle with David Garrick , never reached either stage or print.

CL , as the author of The Female Quixote, published Philander, A Dramatic Pastoral, which Garrick had rejected for the stage.

She had written it in poverty and occasional ill health, but she boasted that Garrick had actually solicited her for a sight of her manuscript. She accordingly read it aloud to him herself.

After The School for Rakes, Garrick appeared to think he had done all for EG that she could expect from him, and repelled a series of advances from her about a new play. By...

Garrick declined to put this on stage at Drury Lane, citing a lack of dramatic spirit and interest. Published by Millar , it has a properly modest dedication, written by Johnson, to Lord Charlemont

EG 's painful experience with Colman ended with bad feeling on both sides. She pocketed her pride and tried again to ingratiate herself with David Garrick , but with no success. He rejected her 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.

SC hinted in A Woman's Case that her husband was upset at her threatening his livelihood with the political rashness of her dedication. The man-in-skirts role became a favourite of David Garrick , which kept...

This was EG 's least successful play. Both in the theatre and in print, responses sound designed to put an impudent female newcomer in her place. Bookseller Tom Davies claimed there was a positive cabal...