Catherine (Kitty) Clive," RECTR, 9 (May 1970),
51-58, and "Kitty Clive as Dramatist," _DUJ_, N.S., 32 No. 2 (March
1971), 125-132.
[4] James Boswell, _Boswell's Life of Johnson_, ed. George Birkbeck
Hill, rev. L.F. Powell (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1950), IV, 243.
[5] _Dramatic Miscellanies_ (London, 1785), III, 131, 376.
[6] Quoted by [John Genest], _Some Account of the English Stage_ (Bath:
H.E. Carrington, 1832), V, 230.
[7] _Memoirs of His Own Life_ (York, 1790), II, 257. See _Theatrical
Correspondence in Death. An Epistle from Mrs. Oldfield_ (London, 1743),
p. 7.
[8] _The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq._, ed. William Ernest
Henley (New York: Croscup & Sterling Co., [1902]; reprinted Barnes &
Noble, 1967), X, 277-278.
[9] For a useful exposition of the 1733 and 1743 disputes in terms of
the licensing act see Watson Nicholson, _The Struggle for a Free Stage
in London_ (Cambridge, Mass.: Archibald Constable & Co., 1906.).
[10] Percy Fitzgerald, _The Life of Mrs. Catherine Clive_ (London: A.
Reader, 1888), p. 24. P.J. Crean, "The Life and Times of Kitty Clive,"
Diss. Univ. of London, 1933, is, however, the authority on Clive's life.
I am indebted to Professor Crean.
[11] Quoted in Mary E. Knapp, _Prologues and Epilogues of the Eighteenth
Century_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961), p. 69.
[12] Yet, with Fitzgerald (_Life_, p. 34), I believe that Fielding could
have helped Mrs.
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