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SUSANNA CENTLIVRE (c. 1667-1723)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 674 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUSANNA

CENTLIVRE (c. 1667-1723)  ,
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English dramatic writer and actress, was born about 1667; probably in Ireland, whither her
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father, a
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Lincolnshire gentleman named Freeman, had been forced to flee at the Restoration on account of his
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political sympathies . When sixteen she married the
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nephew of
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Sir Stephen Fox, and on his
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death within a
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year she married an officer named Carroll, who was killed in a duel .
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Left in poverty, she began to support herself, writing for the stage, and some of her early plays are signed S . Carroll . In 1706 shewith a biography, in 1761 (reprinted 1872) .

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