Lichfield on the main routes from London to the north-west and Birmingham to the north-east. It also became a centre of great intellectual activity, being the home of many famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward; this prompted Johnson's remark that Lichfield was "a city of philosophers". In the 1720s Daniel Defoe described Lichfield as 'a fine, neat, well-built, and indifferent large city', the principal town in the region after Chester. During the late 18th and early 19th century much of the medieval city was rebuilt with the red-brick Georgian style buildings still to be seen
Yvonne Garrick "La Sacrifiee", all at New York's Theatre Francais in the spring of 1916. In 1919, she starred in "Frou Frou" in Montréal, and in "Le Gendre de M. Poirier" at the Theatre du Vieux Columbier; and she was in a company at the Lenox Little Theater. In 1920, Garrick toured the United States in three short plays, opposite Belgian actor Carlo Liten; she also appeared in "Musk" on Broadway that year. In 1921 she gave a recitation at a reception for French ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand given by the Cercle Rochambeau in New York. In January 1916, Garrick was part