FRANCES See also:

• FRANCES ABINGTON (1737-1815)

ABINGTON (1737-1815)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English actress, was the daughter of a private soldier named See also:

• BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH (1766-1815)
• BARTON, BERNARD (1784–1849)
• BARTON, CLARA (1821– )
• BARTON, ELIZABETH (c. 1506–1534)

Barton, and was, at first, a See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower girl and a See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

street See also:

• SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer . She then became servant to a See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• MILLINER

milliner, obtaining a See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste in See also:

• DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress and a knowledge of French which afterwards stood her in See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• STEAD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1849– )

stead . Her first See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance on the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage was at the Haymarket in 1755 as See also:

• MIRANDA, FRANCESCO (c. 1754-1816)

Miranda in Mrs See also:

• CENTLIVRE, SUSANNA (c. 1667-1723)

Centlivre's Busybody . In 1756, on the recommendation of See also:

• SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

• FOOTE
• FOOTE, ANDREW HULL (1806-1863)
• FOOTE, SAMUEL (1720-1777)

Foote, she became a member of the See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane See also:

• COMPANY

company, where she was overshadowed by Mrs See also:

• PRITCHARD, CHARLES (1808–1893)
• PRITCHARD, HANNAH (1711-1768)

Pritchard and Kitty See also:

• CLIVE, CAROLINE (1801-1873)
• CLIVE, CATHERINE [KITTY] (1711-1785)
• CLIVE, ROBERT CLIVE, BARON (1725-1774)

Clive . In 1759, after an unhappy See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage with her See also:

• MUSIC

music-See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master, one of the royal trumpeters, she is mentioned in the bills as Mrs See also:

• ABINGTON, FRANCES (1737-1815)

Abington . Her first success was in See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland as See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady See also:

• TOWNLEY, JAMES (1714-1778)

Townley, and it was only after five years, on the pressing invitation of See also:

• GARRICK, DAVID (1717-1779)

Garrick, that she returned to Drury Lane . There she remained for eighteen years, being the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original of more than See also:

• THIRTY

thirty important characters, notably Lady Teazle (1797) . Her See also:

• BEATRICE

Beatrice, Portia, Desdemona and Ophelia were no less liked than her See also:

• MISS

Miss Hoyden, Biddy Tipkin, See also:

• LUCY, RICHARD DE (d. 1179)

Lucy Lockit and Miss Prue . It was in the last See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character in Love for Love that See also:

• REYNOLDS, JOHN FULTON (182o-1863)
• REYNOLDS, SIR JOSHUA (1723-1792)
• REYNOLDS, WALTER (d. 1327)

Reynolds painted his best portrait of her . In 1782 she See also:

• LEFT

left Drury Lane for Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden . After an See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence from the stage from 1790 until 1797, she reappeared, quitting it finally in 1799 . Her ambition, See also:

• PERSONAL

personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin .

See also:

• WOMEN

Women of See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion copied her frocks,-and a See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head-dress she wore was widely See also:

• ABIOGENESIS

ABIOGENESIS adopted and known as the " Abington cap." She died on the 4th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1815 .