She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it...
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, 1874–1987.
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.
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, 1984, pp. 13-35.
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It ran for only three nights, though after the first performance FS
hastily rewrote passages in act four. The meagre single...
Textual Production
Carol Ann Duffy
They accompanied in performance all that remains of David Garrick
's ode written for his Shakespeare Jubilee of September 1769. After the Stratford performance the masque went on tour.
Clements, Andrew. “Carol Ann Duffy’s life of Shakespeare tops a wigs’ n ’breeches blast from the past”. The Guardian, 25 Apr. 2016, p. Review 29.
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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ann Hatton
The collection shows the poet as sensitive to the influences of canonical, that is fairly recent male, poetry. The dedication quotes Pope
; the Address to the Public says that not thirst of Fame but...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Frances Brooke
This novel became notorious for its hostile portrait of Garrick
. It also complains of the lack of outlets for new plays, attacks Town and Country Magazine for its Tete-a-Tete feature of gossip or scandal...
Wealth and Poverty
Anna Williams
David Garrick
put on a benefit performance at Drury Lane Theatre
for a Gentlewoman of Learning, distressed by blindness, that is AW
.
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.