Peg Woffington is an 1853 novel by the British author Charles Reade. It was inspired by the popular stage play Masks and Faces which he had co-written with Tom Taylor the previous year.Sutherland p.530 Reade portrayed the London success of the Irish actress Peg Woffington (1720–1760) and featured other prominent figures of the days such as David Garrick.
References
Bibliography Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Routledge, 2014.