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She was born at Dublin, of poor parents, her father being a bricklayer and her mother taking in washing. As a child of ten she played Polly Peachum in a Lilliputian production of The Beggar's Opera, and danced and acted at various Dublin theatres until 1740, when her success as Sir Harry Wildair in The Constant Couple led to her being given her London debut at Covent Garden. As Sylvia in The Recruiting Officer, she had enormous success; and starred at Drury Lane for several years, as well as making a triumphant return to Dublin. She appeared in all the plays of the day to ever growing popularity. Among her best impersonations were the elegant women of fashion, like Lady Betty Modish and Lady Townley, and in "breeches parts" she had no rival.
She lived openly with Garrick, and her other love affairs were numerous and notorious, but her generosity and kindness of heart were equally well known. She educated her sister Mary, and cared for and pensioned her mother. However, after an incident in 1756 when she stabbed another actress, she was taken ill. She built and endowed by will some almshouses at Teddington, where she lived quietly after her retirement in 1757Events March 14 On-board the HMS Monarch Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty. June 23 Indian Mutiny: Battle of Plassey 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj-ud-Dawlah at Pla.
See Austin DobsonHenry Austin Dobson ( January 18, 1840 September 2, 1921) was an English poet and essayist. He was born at Plymouth, the eldest son of George Clarisse Dobson, a civil engineer, of French descent. When he was about eight, the family moved to Holyhead, and's Introduction to Charles ReadeCharles Reade ( June 8, 1814 April 11, 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth''. Reade, the son of an Oxfordshire squire, was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, taking his's novel Peg Woffington (London, 1899), and Augustin DalyAugustin Daly ( July 20, 1838 June 7, 1899), American theatrical manager and playwright, was born in Plymouth, North Carolina. He was dramatic critic for several New York papers from 1859, and he adapted or wrote a number of plays, Under the Gaslight ( 18's Woffington: a Tribute to the Actress and the Woman (1888).
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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