David Garrick

CN refers to several canonical English names (Pope , Reynolds , Garrick , Shakespeare , and Edmund Kean in her first poem), and relates closely to continental women. She praises Germaine de Staël for...

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. The story is set during the reign of...

HM had her first London opening: her second tragedy, Percy, was produced by David Garrick at Covent Garden .

The More family benefited from the patronage of several local, well-placed gentry: of Norborne Berkeley, later Baron Bottetourt , and his nephew's wife, and of the Rev. James Stonhouse (or Stonehouse) , a baronet. Stonhouse...

Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke in Bristol the previous September...

The opening performance (with Langhorne 's prologue, and David Garrick 's epilogue) was attended by HM , her four sisters, and Garrick. He proposed taking the play to Drury Lane, but More declined. A...

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. His...

She had written four of its five acts when David Garrick died, leaving her indifferent about the play and reluctant about performance.Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote an epilogue. It was published by...

HM probably gave up the theatre (both writing for it and attending plays) less because of the loss of David Garrick or the conflict with Hannah Cowley than because of her religious belief, which presented...

More said she was drawn to Montagu less by the lustre of your understanding, than by the amiable qualities of your heart. Her work went through ten editions in ten years, and laid the...

Dragon was David Garrick 's dog.

The patriotism of EM 's riposte ensured its enthusiastic reception. Readers (among them a brother of Elizabeth Carter , who refrained from enlightening him) assumed that the anonymity of this authoritative critical voice concealed a...

The day chosen was Friday, later switched to Thursday. The meetings took place in winter, the fashionable season at Bath, and upper-class visitors were eager to attend. Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire visited during the first...

JM says the idea of writing a comedy was first suggested to her by Hope amid the disappointments that attended the appearance of her first novel. Again she published allusively, as the Author...

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