David Garrick

EFC 's grandfather, who committed public suicide by shooting himself in the west porch of Westminster Abbey on 1 February 1797, when he was a little past seventy, was Colonel Frederick or Frederic (called by...

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

She did her best to pursue a professional friendship with David Garrick and his wife , but after facilitating her successful debut as a playwright in early 1776 Garrick became somewhat elusive. She had a...

She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it...

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.

The heroine of this novel is unhappy in her marriage (two small children) to an ebullient and overbearing young actor. She is stuck with his theatre company in its seven-month season in Hereford (the birthplace...

They accompanied in performance all that remains of David Garrick 's ode written for his Shakespeare Jubilee of September 1769. After the Stratford performance the masque went on tour.

SF sent David Garrick the draft of an unfinished play; it remains unpublished, unperformed, and lost.

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...

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

As an eighteenth-century publisher AF was in a small way one of the new breed of literary patrons. She and her husband helped the minor pastoral poet John Cunningham (1729–1773) by publishing him both in...

The Duchess of Devonshire knew virtually everyone in London society. Set apart was the Devonshire House Circle: a clique of wealthy and fashionable Whigs with rakish or bohemian leanings, who even spoke in their...

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...

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...

It was published the same month by Fielding and Walker , who were also publishers of the Westminster Magazine (to which EG was a contributor). An Advertisement attributes the idea of adapting Goldoni to...