David Garrick

David Garrick put on a benefit performance at Drury Lane Theatre for a Gentlewoman of Learning, distressed by blindness, that is AW .

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...

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...

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. When she was ill the...

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...

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...

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

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.

David Garrick showed his confidence in the play by agreeing to take a role secondary to that of Thomas Sheridan as male lead. The young dramatist John O'Keeffe long remembered the opening as delightful and...

In Garrick 's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman . It ran for only three nights, though after the first performance FS hastily rewrote passages in act four. The meagre single...

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...

AS wrote an elegy for David Garrick after his death on 20 January 1779.

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...

Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds , Arthur Murphy , Edmund Burke , Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Burney , and David Garrick . Later came the young Frances Burney , who became a...

After doingDavid Garrick in 1958, CO published Ayot Rectory, a biography of the unknown Mary (Sneade) Brown (1780-1858).