A GEORGIAN PAGEANT
By Frank Frankfort Moore
With Illustrations
London: Hutchinson & Co. Paternoster Row
1908
CONTENTS
A COMEDY IN ST. MARTIN'S STREET
THE BEST COMEDY OF THE CENTURY
THE WRITER'S APOLOGY
THE greater number of the papers in this series, dealing with some well-known persons and incidents of the latter half of the Eighteenth Century, are the practical result of a long conversation which the writer had with the late Professor J. Churton Collins upon a very memorable occasion. The writer ventured to contend that the existing views respecting the personality of Oliver Goldsmith, of Henry Thrale, of James Boswell, of Samuel Johnson, and of some others whom he named, were grossly erroneous; as were also the prevalent notions respecting such matters as Fanny Burney's attendance upon the Queen, the “romance