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HANNAH See also:PRITCHARD (1711-1768)
, See also:English actress, whose name before her See also:early See also:marriage—to an actor—was See also:Vaughan, first attracted See also:attention as a See also:singer at See also:Bartholomew's See also:Fair in 1733
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She was soon playing a wide variety of parts, mostly See also:comedy, at the Haymarket, See also:Drury See also:Lane and Covent See also:Garden
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When See also:Garrick became patentee of Drury Lane in 1747 she joined his See also:company and played with him for twenty years, her last See also:appearance being as See also:Lady See also:Macbeth—one of her greatest relies—in See also:April 1768, a few months before her See also:death
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Her talents were highly thought of by the critics of the See also:day
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Her daughter, who had studied under Garrick, and whose beauty created a sensation when she made her debut (as " See also:Miss See also:Pritchard ") in See also:October 1756, did not live up to the expectations then raised
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She married in 1762 the actor See also: |
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