excerpt from 'Secret Comment: The Diaries of Gertrude Savile 1721-1757. Based on a transcript by Dorothy Hooper.' pp. 100 (138 words)
excerpt from 'Secret Comment: The Diaries of Gertrude Savile 1721-1757. Based on a transcript by Dorothy Hooper.' pp. 100 (138 words)
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Diary entry 19th March 1728 Mother and Aunt going to South Sea; back at 2. Mother to treat us all [and Mrs.D’Enly] to ‘The Beggar’s Opera’; not possible. The Town is all stark Mad. English People must always have something to be mad about, a South Sea, or a Beggar’s Opera, a Faustina or Polly Peachum. No getting in, as I said. Glad to get from the dore, where was such crowding and shriking, we were happy to be on the right side for runing away. Went to Drury Lane – a pretty Play ‘She Woud and She Woud Not’ with a new farce ‘Harlequin happy’, but at present Polly Peachum attracts too powerfully for Wisdom or Folly to resist. Gallery full of those who coud not get in to ‘The Beggar’s Opera’. Below very empty. |
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