The opening performance (with Langhorne
's prologue, and David Garrick
's epilogue) was attended by HM
, her four sisters, and Garrick. He proposed taking the play to Drury Lane, but More declined.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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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, 1952.
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HM
probably gave up the theatre (both writing for it and attending plays) less because of the loss of David Garrick
or the conflict with Hannah Cowley
than because of her religious belief, which presented...
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More said she was drawn to Montagu less by the lustre of your understanding, than by the amiable qualities of your heart.
More, Hannah. Essays on Various Subjects. J. Wilkie, T. Cadell, 1777.
prelims
Her work went through ten editions in ten years, and laid the...
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Dragon was David Garrick
's dog.
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.