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