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CHRISTIANA HORTON (c. 1696–c. 1756)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHRISTIANA

HORTON (c. 1696–c. 1756)  ,
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English actress, first appeared in
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London as Melinda in The Recruiting Officer in 1714 at Drury Lane . Here she remained twenty years, followed by fifteen at Covent Garden . At both houses during this long career she played all the leading tragedy and
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comedy parts, and Barton Booth (who " discovered " her) said she was the best successor of Mrs . Oldfield . She was the
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original Mariana in Fielding's
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Miser (1733) .

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