Author: Benjamin VictorPublisher:
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Original Letters, Dramatic Pieces, and Poems
Author: Benjamin VictorPublisher:
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Original Letters, Dramatic Pieces, and Poems. By Benjamin Victor
Author: Benjamin VictorBibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the library of ... Richard Heber, which will be sold by auction, by messrs. Sotheby and son [and others] Apr. 10, 1834 [&c.]. [2 other copies. Pt.1-12 with MS. prices, pt.1-11 also with the cost to the owner. In the 2nd set, pt.11 is marked with all purchasers, and pt.1,2 with a few purchasers. In the 1st set, pt.1 has a statistical table analysing the series of sales].
![Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the library of ... Richard Heber, which will be sold by auction, by messrs. Sotheby and son [and others] Apr. 10, 1834 [&c.]. [2 other copies. Pt.1-12 with MS. prices, pt.1-11 also with the cost to the owner. In the 2nd set, pt.11 is marked with all purchasers, and pt.1,2 with a few purchasers. In the 1st set, pt.1 has a statistical table analysing the series of sales]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/FGdbAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: A Catalogue of Books, Including the Libraries of the Rev. Robert Markham, ... William Pagitt, ... Which are Now Selling, 1788 ... by Thomas and John Egerton, ...
Author: Thomas and John Egerton (Firm)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington
Author: Laetitia PilkingtonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820317199
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
This is the first scholarly edition of the Memoirs of Laetitia Van Lewen Pilkington (1709?-1750), a poet, ghostwriter, and protégée of Jonathan Swift and the playwright/stage manager Colley Cibber. Swift's first biographer by virtue of her lively portrayals of him, Pilkington remains the best chronicler of the great satirist's private life while he was at the height of his influence and creativity. Offering as well an account of Pilkington's own tumultuous and unconventional life, the Memoirs caused a scandal when they first appeared, owing to their details about her divorce and the many would-be Lotharios (most of them married) who subsequently pestered her with their attentions. Originally appearing in three volumes between 1748 and 1754, the Memoirs have been periodically reprinted and are often quoted by scholars in different disciplines. Until now, however, the work has not received serious editorial attention. In this edition, A. C. Elias Jr. has established for the first time a critical text based on the earliest and most definitive printings, which Pilkington and her son oversaw. For the first time there are explanatory notes that identify the many veiled or anonymous figures in the text and establish the reliability of each anecdote about them. Other new features include an index, a census of early editions, a full bibliography, and a chronology. This edition is produced in a two-volume format, the first comprising the actual Memoirs, and the second the commentary. Readers are at last in a position to understand exactly what Pilkington is saying in her Memoirs--and what she may be suppressing in the process. They can now approach Pilkington's Swift with confidence at each step, and appreciate her rendering of the many other real-life personages who populate her disarmingly breezy narrative: bishops, scientists, and statesmen; authors, artists, and printers; and assorted rogues, wits, bawds, and eccentrics. More than any other early-eighteenth-century woman writing in English, says Elias, Pilkington remains accessible to readers today. As a portrayal of Swift, as the recollections of a woman making her way in the male-dominated world of letters, as a source of Irish and English cultural and historical minutiae, and as a delightfully gossipy poke at social pretense, Pilkington's Memoirs are a classic of her era.
Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 3
Author: Gail MarshallPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040250378
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.
The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo
Author: James BoswellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030025038X
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, documents the long friendship between Boswell and Sir William Forbes This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, collects the letters exchanged between lawyer, diarist, and biographer James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, eminent Scottish banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's "English Episcopal" community. Forbes served as Boswell's most valued Scottish advisor, to whom he would often turn for personal, financial, moral, and religious guidance, and whom he would name executor of his estate and co-guardian of his children. The volume includes a total of 111 comprehensively annotated letters, few of which have appeared previously in print, between Forbes and Boswell and other correspondents. It illuminates in particular the period in which Boswell moved from Edinburgh to London and wrote his major books, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson and The Life of Samuel Johnson.
A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Robert William LowePublisher: Gale Cengage
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Author: Richard Heber![Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber, Esq.: Part the Fourt, Removed from His House at Pimlico. Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans, at His House, No° 93, Pall Mall. On Monday, ..., and Fourteen Following Days, Sundays Excepted. To be Viewed on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Previous to the Sale. [Each Day's Sale Will Commence at Half Past Twelve Precisely]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/O23etmwlzOkC?fife=w80-h100)
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