David Garrick

The Dublin edition followed two years later. She dedicated the work to David Garrick .

Many of EG 's letters to Garrick survive on film among Papers of David Garrick at the Victoria and Albert Museum . A few of her holograph letters to other people are at Harvard .

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

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...

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. Griffith was rewarded with critical...

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...

The collection shows the poet as sensitive to the influences of canonical, that is fairly recent male, poetry. The dedication quotes Pope ; the Address to the Public says that not thirst of Fame but...

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...

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...

ML was sometimes taken to the theatre as a child, which she loved. The first play she ever saw was Congreve 's tragedy The Mourning Bride, with a Harlequin pantomime to follow. She once...

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

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.

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 ). Late in...

Garrick thought her letter fine & conceited. The first editor of his correspondence, James Boaden , called her in a note this silly and impudent woman, typically folding together the...

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...