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See also:GEORGE See also:ANNE See also:BELLAMY (1727-1788) , See also:English actress, See also:born at Fingal, See also:Ireland, by her own See also:account, on the 23rd of See also:April 1733, but more probably in 1727, was the illegitimate daughter of See also:Lord Tyrawley, See also:British See also:ambassador at See also:Lisbon . Her See also:mother married there a See also:Captain See also:Bellamy, and the See also:child received the name See also:George See also:Anne, by See also:mistake for Georgiana . Lord Tyrawley acknowledged the child, had her educated in a See also:convent in See also:Boulogne, and through him she came to know a number of notable See also:people in See also:London . On his See also:appointment as ambassador to See also:Russia, she went to live with her mother in London, made the acquaintance of Mrs See also:Woffington and See also:Garrick, and adopted the theatrical profession . Her first engagement was at Covent See also:Garden as Monimia in the See also:Orphan in 1744 . Owing to her See also:personal charms and the social patronage extended to her, her success was immediate, and till 1770 she acted in London, See also:Edinburgh and See also:Dublin, in all the See also:principal tragic roles . She played Juliet to Garrick's Romeo at See also:Drury See also:Lane at the See also:time that Spranger See also:Barry (q.v.) was giving the See also:rival performances at Covent Garden, and was considered the better of the Juliets . Her last years were unhappy, and passed in poverty and See also:ill-See also:health . She died on the 16th of See also:February 1788.' Her See also:Apology (6 vols., 1785) gives an account of her See also:long career and of her private See also:life, the extravagance and See also:licence of which were notorious . |
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