MDMD (6)--Ch. 18 Notes - Woffington

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

I wrote:
> > 184.4  Mrs Woffington & Garrick--perhaps, ghosts, as well?

> Woffington, Margaret (1714-1760) `Peg Woffington', actress.
> Garrick, David (1717-1779), actor.
> Anyhow I guess they were still alive.

and Adam Rounce replied:
> But if the Cock-Lane Ghost didn't start tapping until January 1762, then
> it can't be Peg Woffington, can it? There's a famous biog of Garrick
> that might have more on this. (Of course, it could be a cock-up)

Whoops.  A little rudimentary web searching reveals that Garrick was one
of a circle of luminaries associated with the ghost (to quote, "for
example William Hogarth, Horace Walpole, David Garrick, Samuel Foote,
Charles Churchill, John Wesley and by no means last a certain Dr Johnson."

Since Peg Woffington was 2 years dead maybe Mason sees (or imagines he
sees) an echo of himself and Rebekah.  (Were Garrick and Woffington ever
romantically linked?)

	Steve Maas