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LAVINIA FENTON (1708-1760)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 260 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAVINIA

FENTON (1708-1760)  ,
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English actress, was probably the daughter cf a
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naval
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lieutenant named Beswick, but she
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bore the name of her
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mother's
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husband . Her first appearance was as Monimia in Otway's Orphans, in 1726 at the Hay-market . She then joined the
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company of players at the theatre in Lincoln's
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Inn Fields, where her success and beauty made her the
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toast of the beaux . It was in Gay's
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Beggar's Opera, as Polly Peachum, that
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Miss Fenton made her greatest success . Her pictures were in
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great demand, verses were written to her and books published about her, and she was the most talked-of person in
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London . Hogarth's picture shows her in one of the scenes, with the duke of Bolton in a box . After appearing in several comedies, and then in numerous repetitions of the Beggar's Opera, she ran away with her lover Charles Paulet, 3rd duke of Bolton, a man much older than herself, who, after the
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death of his wife in 1751, married her . Their three children all died young . The duchess survived her husband and died on the 24th of
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January 176o .

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