George Lillo

Again the Critical Review enjoyed AG 's humour, if not her plotting. It supposed her to be influenced by George Lillo 's bourgeois tragedy The London Merchant (having in mind, no doubt, the vindication of...

CC , at Henry Fielding 's Haymarket Theatre , appeared in male roles: as Macheath (John Gay ), Falstaff (Shakespeare ), George Barnwell (George Lillo ), and Lothario (Nicholas Rowe ).

In 1730 she acted in Hatchett's The Rival Father and perhaps as Mrs Novel (a character apparently based on herself) in Fielding's The Author's Farce. On 2 March 1732 she played in The Blazing...

She also adapted works by Henry Fielding and George Lillo , and a version of the Inkle and Yarico story originated by Richard Steele and versified by Frances, Lady Hertford .

Her abridgement The Pathetic and Interesting History of George Barnwell. Founded on Facts, published in 1804 and billed as adapting a novel by Thomas Skinner Surr , derives originally from George Lillo 's immensely...

The title-page mentions her joint Trifles, and quotes from Shakespeare 's Macbeth and from Lillo . According to the commonly-accepted view of SK 's birth date (which is not necessarily correct), she wrote this...

The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of...