See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

ANNE See also:

• ANNE BRACEGIRDLE (c. 1674-1748)

BRACEGIRDLE (c. 1674-1748)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English actress, is said to have been placed under the care of See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• BETTERTON, THOMAS (c. 1635-1710)

Betterton and his wife, and to have first appeared on the See also:

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

stage as the See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

page in The See also:

• ORPHAN

Orphan at its first performance at See also:

• DORSET, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF

Dorset 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 in 1680 . She was See also:

• LUCIA (or LucY), ST

Lucia in See also:

• SHADWELL, THOMAS (c. 1642-1692)

Shadwell's See also:

• SQUIRE

Squire of See also:

• ALSATIA (the old French province of Alsace)

Alsatia at the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

Theatre Royal in 1688, and played similar parts until, in 1693, as Araminta in The Old See also:

• BACHELOR (from Med. Lat. baccalarius, with its late and rare variant baccalaris—cf. Ital. baccalare—through O. Fr. bacheler)

Bachelor, she made her first See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance in a See also:

• COMEDY

comedy by See also:

• CONGREVE, RICHARD (1818-1899)
• CONGREVE, SIR WILLIAM
• CONGREVE, WILLIAM (167o-1729)

Congreve, with whose See also:

• WORKS

works and See also:

• LIFE

life her name is most closely connected . In 1695 she went with Betterton and the other seceders to See also:

• LINCOLN
• LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865)
• LINCOLN, EARLS OF

Lincoln's See also:

• INN

Inn See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

Fields, where, on its opening with Congreve's Love for Love, she played See also:

• ANGELICA

Angelica . This See also:

• PART

part, and those of Belinda in See also:

• VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN (1664-1726)

Vanbrugh's Provoked Wife, and Almira in Congreve's See also:

• MOURNING (from the verb " to mourn," to be sorrowful, 0. Eng. murnan; cf. O.H.G. mornen, Goth. maurnan, to be anxious, O.N. morna, to pine away; by some referred to root seen in Gr. jdptpva, sorrow, by others to root mer-, to die)

Mourning See also:

• BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

Bride, were among her best impersonations, but she also played the heroines of some of See also:

• NICHOLAS
• NICHOLAS (1841– )
• NICHOLAS (or NICLAES), HENRY (or HENDRIK) (c. 1501-C. 158o)
• NICHOLAS, SIR EDWARD (1593-1669)
• NICHOLAS, ST

Nicholas Rowe's tragedies, and acted in the contemporary versions of See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare's plays . In 1705 she followed Betterton to the Haymarket, where she found a serious competitor in Mrs See also:

• OLDFIELD, ANNE (1683–173o)

Oldfield, then first coming into public favour . The See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story runs that it was See also:

• LEFT

left for the See also:

• AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience to determine which was the better comedy actress, the test being the part of Mrs Brittle in Betterton's Amorous Widow, which was played alternately by the two rivals on successive nights . When the popular See also:

• VOTE

vote was given in favour of Mrs Oldfield, Mrs See also:

• BRACEGIRDLE, ANNE (c. 1674-1748)

Bracegirdle quitted the stage, making only one reappearance at Betterton's benefit in 1709 . Her private life was the subject of much discussion . See also:

• COLLEY, SIR GEORGE POMEROY (1835-1881)

Colley See also:

• CIBBER (or CIBERT), CAIUS GABRIEL (163o-1700)
• CIBBER, COLLEY (1671-1757)

Cibber remarks that she had the merit of " not being unguarded in her private See also:

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

character," while See also:

• MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, BARON (1800-1859)

Macaulay does not hesitate to See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call her " a See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold, vain and interested coquette, who perfectly understood how much the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of her charms was increased by the fame of a severity which cost her nothing." She was certainly the See also:

• OBJECT

object of the See also:

• ADORATION (Lat. ad, to, and os, mouth; i.e. " carrying to one's mouth ")

adoration of many men, and she was the See also:

• INNOCENT (INNOCENTIUS)
• INNOCENT (POPES)

innocent cause of the killing of the actor See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• MOUNTFORT, WILLIAM (c. 1664-1692)

Mountfort (q.v.), whom See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

Hill and See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• MOHUN, CHARLES MOHUN
• MOHUN, MICHAEL (c. 1625-1684)

Mohun regarded as a See also:

• RIVAL

rival for her affections . During her lifetime she was suspected of being secretly married to Congreve, whose See also:

• MISTRESS

mistress she is also said to have been . He was at least always her intimate friend, and left her a See also:

• LEGACY (Lat. legatum)

legacy . Rightly or wrongly, her reputation for virtue was remarkably high, and Lord See also:

• HALIFAX
• HALIFAX, CHARLES MONTAGUE, EARL OF (1661–1715)
• HALIFAX, GEORGE MONTAGU DUNK, 2ND EARL OF (1716-1771)
• HALIFAX, GEORGE SAVILE, 1ST MARQUESS OF (1633-1695)

Halifax headed a subscription See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of 800 guineas, presented to her as a See also:

• TRIBUTE (Lat. tributurn, a stated payment, contribution)

tribute to her virtue .

Her charity to the poor in See also:

• CLARE
• CLARE, JOHN (1793-1864)
• CLARE, JOHN FITZGIBBON, 1ST EARL OF (1749-1802)

Clare See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

Market and around See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

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

Lane was conspicuous, " insomuch that she would not pass that neighbourhood without the thankful acclamations of See also:

• PEOPLE

people of all degrees." She died in 1748, and was buried in the cloisters of See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster See also:

• ABBEY (Lat. abbatia; from Syr. abba, father)
• ABBEY, EDWIN AUSTIN (1852– )

Abbey . See Genest, See also:

• HISTORY

History of the Stage; Colley Cibber, See also:

• APOLOGY (from Gr. &aoXoyia, defence)

Apology (edited by Bellchambers) ; See also:

• EGERTON, SIR PHILIP DE MALPAS GREY

Egerton, Life of See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne Oldfield; See also:

• DOWNES [D(o)UNAEUS], ANDREW (c. 1549-1628)

Downes, Roscius Anglicanus .