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HELENA SAVILLE FAUCIT (1817-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 205 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HELENA SAVILLE See also:FAUCIT (1817-1898)  , See also:English actress, the daughter of See also:John Saville See also:Faucit, an actor, was See also:born in See also:London . Her first London See also:appearance was made on the 5th of See also:January 1836 at Covent See also:Garden as Julia in The Hunchback . Her successin this was so definitely confirmed by her subsequent acting of Juliet, See also:Lady Teazle, See also:Beatrice, Imogen and Hermione, that within eighteen months she was engaged by See also:Macready as leading lady at Covent Garden . There, besides appearing in several Shakespearian characters, she created the heroine's See also:part in See also:Lytton's Duchess de la Valliere (1836), Lady of See also:Lyons (1838), See also:Richelieu (1839), The See also:Sea See also:Captain (1839), See also:Money (184o), and See also:Browning's See also:Strafford (1837) . After a visit to See also:Paris and a See also:short See also:season at the Haymarket, she joined the See also:Drury See also:Lane See also:company under Macready See also:early in 1842 . There she played Lady See also:Macbeth, See also:Constance in See also:King John, Desdemona and Imogen, and took part in the first See also:production of Westland See also:Marston's Patrician's Daughter (1842) and Browning's Blot on the Scutcheon (1843) . Among her successful See also:tours was included a visit to Paris in 1844-1845, where she acted with Macready in several Shakespearian plays . In 1851 she was married to Mr (afterwards See also:Sir) See also:Theodore See also:Martin, but still acted occasionally for charity . One of her last appearances was is Beatrice, on the opening of the See also:Shakespeare Memorial at See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon on the 23rd of See also:April 1879 . In 1881 there appeared in See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine the first of her Letters on some of Shakespeare's Heroines, which were published in See also:book See also:form as On Some of Shakespeare's See also:Female Characters (1885) . Lady Martin died at her See also:home near See also:Llangollen in See also:Wales on the 31st of See also:October 1898 . There is a tablet to her in the Shakespeare Memorial with a portrait figure, and the See also:marble See also:pulpit in the Shakespeare See also:church—with her portrait as See also:Saint See also:Helena—was given in her memory by her See also:husband .

See Sir Theodore Martin's Helena Faucit (1900) .

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