Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel. Samuel Richardson: A Biography. Clarendon.
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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 | Susan Smythies | 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. Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel. Samuel Richardson: A Biography. Clarendon. 464 |
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. 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. 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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... |
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. 461 |
Reception | Susanna Centlivre | SC
hinted in A Woman's Case that her husband was upset at her threatening his livelihood with the political rashness of her dedication. The man-in-skirts role became a favourite of David Garrick
, which kept... |
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