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HARRIETTE DEBORAH LACY (1807-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 57 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEBORAH See also:LACY (1807-1874)  , See also:English actress, was See also:born in See also:London, the daughter of a tradesman named See also:Taylor . Her first See also:appearance on the See also:stage was at See also:Bath in 1827 as Julia in The Rivals, and she was immediately given leading parts there in both See also:comedy and tragedy . Her first London appearance was in 183o as Nina, in Dimond's See also:Carnival of See also:Naples . Her Rosalind, Aspatia (to See also:Macready's Melantius) in The Bridal, and See also:Lady Teazle to the See also:Charles See also:Surface of See also:Walter See also:Lacy (1809–1898)—to whom she was married in 1839—confirmed her position and popularity . She was the See also:original See also:Helen in The Hunchback (1832), and also created Nell Gwynne in See also:Jerrold's See also:play of that name, and the heroine in his Housekeeper . She was considered the first Ophelia of her See also:day . She retired in 1848 .

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