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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Publishing | Jean Marishall | 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. Marishall, Jean. A Series of Letters. C. Elliot, 1788, 2 vols. 2: 195 |
| Publishing | Mary Jones | 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... |
| Publishing | Mary Latter | ML
wrote to David Garrick
, just before Easter, in a renewed attempt to get her tragedy, The Siege of Jerusalem, produced in London. Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963, 3 vols. 3: 927n2 |
| Publishing | Dorothea Celesia | |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | 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... |
| Publishing | Mary Latter | 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. Garrick, David. Correspondence. Editor Boaden, James, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831, 2 vols. 1: 633 |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | 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 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | 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... |
| 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, 1991, pp. 120-42. 130 |
| 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, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44. 327 Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 19 , No. 1, Jan. 1971, pp. 36-60. 47-8 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | 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... |
| Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | Garrick
declined to put this on stage at Drury Lane, citing a lack of dramatic spirit and interest. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018. 157 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | 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... |
| Reception | Frances Brooke | David Garrick
emphatically warned Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
against using FB
as a translator again in the future. Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963, 3 vols. 461 |
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