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JANE POPE (1742-1818)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 87 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POPE (1742-1818)  , See also:English actress, daughter of a See also:London theatrical See also:wig-maker, who began playing in a Lilliputian See also:company for See also:Garrick in 1756 . From this she speedily See also:developed into soubrette roles . She was Mrs Candour in The School for See also:Scandal at its first presentation (1777), and thereafter she had many important parts confided to her . She was the See also:life-See also:long friend of Mrs See also:Clive, and erected the See also:monument at See also:Twickenham to the latter's memory . She was not only an admirable actress, but a woman of blameless life, and was praised by all the See also:literary critics of her See also:day—unused to such a See also:combination . She died on the 3oth of See also:July 1818 .

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