Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Hannah More | She had worked on it that spring, sending it one act at a time to David
and Eva Maria Garrick
, who were trenchantly and helpfully critical. David wrote a prologue and epilogue. |
| Textual Features | Georgina Munro | A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes. Athenæum. J. Lection. 744 (1842):110 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Textual Features | Frances Brooke | The periodical's theatre reports, provided by a little court of female criticism Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv |
| Textual Features | Susan Smythies | In this third-person narrative (again well supplied with subsidiary, episodic stories) Lucy is a well-bred ideal orphan, who is discovered by Mrs Goodall, a benevolent widow of fifty-nine, living with the vulgar and unpleasant Searls... |
| Reception | Susanna Centlivre | 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... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Griffith | 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... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Griffith | Rizzo
regards this play as an attempt (not unsuccessful) to placate male critics, a trial run of the unhappy insights that EG
used in most of her later work. Rizzo, Betty. “’Depressa Resurgam’: Elizabeth Griffith’s Playwriting Career”. Curtain Calls, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, Ohio University Press, pp. 120-42. 129 |
| Reception | Frances Brooke | David Garrick
emphatically warned Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
against using FB
as a translator again in the future. Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 461 |
| Publishing | Frances Sheridan | FS
wrote to David Garrick
from Blois in France about her draft comedy A Journey to Bath. Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 479n |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
finished drafting a comedy, original not adapted, which, despite a prolonged battle with David Garrick
, never reached either stage or print. Rizzo, Betty. “’Depressa Resurgam’: Elizabeth Griffith’s Playwriting Career”. Curtain Calls, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, Ohio University Press, pp. 120-42. 130 |
| Publishing | Frances Sheridan | 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. Shellenberg, Betty A. “Frances Sheridan Reads John Home: Placing <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Sidney Bidulph</span> in the Republic of Letters”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 13 , No. 4, pp. 561-77. 565, 567 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | CL
, as the author of The Female Quixote, published Philander, A Dramatic Pastoral, which Garrick
had rejected for the stage. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 327 Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 19 , No. 1, pp. 36-60. 47-8 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | 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... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | 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... |
| Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | Garrick
declined to put this on stage at Drury Lane, citing a lack of dramatic spirit and interest. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. 157 |
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