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

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