David Garrick

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Standard Name: Garrick, David

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Literary responses Frances Brooke
Garrick called FB 's Virginia (before it reached print) a play, which I did not like, & would not act.
Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
461
A footnote in his correspondence says it was published in Dublin in 1754, but...
Literary responses Elizabeth Montagu
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...
Literary responses Mary Latter
Garrick thought her letter fine & conceited.
Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
3: 927n3
The first editor of his correspondence, James Boaden , called her in a note this silly and impudent woman,
Garrick, David. Correspondence. Editor Boaden, James, H. Colburn and R. Bentley.
1: 634n
typically folding together the...
Literary Setting Ann Thicknesse
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Hannah More
She had written four of its five acts when David Garrick died, leaving her indifferent about the play and reluctant about performance.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
37
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky.
24
Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote an epilogue.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
38
It was published by...
Occupation Mary Robinson
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...
Occupation Anna Miller
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...
Occupation Leah Sumbel
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...
Performance of text Hannah Cowley
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 London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 1952
Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol.
1
, Garland, p. v - xlxx.
vii, x
Performance of text Hannah Cowley
HC 's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane under Garrick 's successor, Sheridan .
It was normal practice for light-hearted sketches to follow more serious plays to complete the evening's entertainment.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 246
Performance of text Hannah More
HM had her first London opening: her second tragedy, Percy, was produced by David Garrick at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 133
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
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 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 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

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