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MARY ANNE [FANNY] STIRLING (1815-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 924 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARY ANNE [FANNY] STIRLING (1815-1895)  ,
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English actress, was born in
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London, the daughter of a Captain
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Kehl . After some experience at outlying theatres, she appeared in London in 1836 . Having been successful as Celia in As You Like It and Sophia in The Road to Ruin, Macready gave her an opportunity to
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play Cordelia to his Lear, and Madeline Weir to his James V. in the Rev . James White's King of the
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Commons . In 1852 she created Peg Woffington in Reade and Taylor's Masks and Faces . Meanwhile she had married
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Edward Stirling (d . 1894), an actor, manager and dramatic author . In later years Mrs Stirling gained a new popularity as the nurse in Irving's presentation (1882) of Romeo and Juliet, and again (1884) with Mary Anderson; and she was the Martha in Irving's production of Faust (1885) . She died on the 3oth of December 1895, having in the previous
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year married
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Sir Charles Hutton Gregory (1817-1888) .

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