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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Hannah More | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Hannah More | 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... |
| Textual Production | Hannah More | |
| Textual Production | Hannah More | 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. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 34 |
| Textual Features | Georgina Munro | 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. Athenæum. J. Lection. 744 (1842):110 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Nooth | 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... |
| Textual Production | Carola Oman | After doingDavid Garrick in 1958, CO
published Ayot Rectory, a biography of the unknown Mary (Sneade) Brown
(1780-1858). British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1967 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Arthur Murphy
, Edmund Burke
, Oliver Goldsmith
, Charles Burney
, and David Garrick
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 157 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
wrote an elegy for David Garrick
after his death on 20 January 1779. Feminist Companion Archive. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| 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 | 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 |
| Literary responses | Frances Sheridan | David Garrick
showed his confidence in the play by agreeing to take a role secondary to that of Thomas Sheridan
as male lead. The young dramatist John O'Keeffe
long remembered the opening as delightful and... |
| Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | In Garrick
's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman
. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35. 24 |
| Literary responses | Frances Sheridan | Garrick
's reply did not take up Sheridan's points about the play's content. Instead he feigned comic alarm at a challenge from a lady, and defended his own managerial practice with lavish use of the... |
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