[3] Around 1730, Madame Violante featured the young Woffington in her Lilliputian Theatre Company's production of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera.

During this time, she became well acquainted with the foremost actor of the day David Garrick, and her other love affairs (including liaisons with Edward Bligh, 2nd Earl of Darnley and the MP Charles Hanbury Williams), were numerous and notorious.

One evening, Woffington and Garrick were almost caught in bed together by a visiting Noble Lord, who was believed to be enamoured with the actress.

Woffington managed to evade the angry Lord's accusations by claiming the wig was her own, for an upcoming breeches role.

[7] Though she was popular with society figures, having entertained such illustrious names as Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding,[2] Peg Woffington was not always favoured by her competition.

She even managed to offend “tragediennes for whom Peg’s comic powers posed no threat” with her “queenly ways”.

She built and endowed by will some almshouses at Teddington, and after her death on 28 March 1760 in her 40th year her body was buried in the graveyard of St. Mary's Church there.

[11] Considered a society beauty of her era, Woffington was painted by several artists, including Jacobus Lovelace in 1744, Peter van Bleeck in 1747, and John Lewis in 1753.

In 1852 Charles Reade and Tom Taylor wrote a play Masks and Faces which featured Woffington as a central character.

Woffington appears as the main character in the graphic novel La pièce manquante ("The Missing Play", 2023) by Jean Harambat [fr].

She and Sancho then go on a quest to find it, but they also discover interests that try to keep them away from the play - including David Garrick, who is both Woffington's competitor and unwelcomed suitor.