SUSANNAH MARIA See also:

• CIBBER (or CIBERT), CAIUS GABRIEL (163o-1700)
• CIBBER, COLLEY (1671-1757)

CIBBER (1714-1766)  , wife of See also:

• THEOPHILUS

Theophilus, was an actress of distinction . She was the daughter of a Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden See also:

• UPHOLSTERER

upholsterer, and See also:

• SISTER

sister of Dr See also:

• ARNE, THOMAS AUGUSTINE (1710-1778)

Arne (1710—1778) the composer . Mrs See also:

• CIBBER (or CIBERT), CAIUS GABRIEL (163o-1700)
• CIBBER, COLLEY (1671-1757)

Cibber had a beautiful See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice and began her career in See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera . She was the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original Galatea in See also:

• HANDEL, GEORGE FREDERICK (1685–1759)

Handel's See also:

• ACIS

Acis and Galatea, and the See also:

• CONTRALTO (from Ital. contra-alto, i.e. next above the alto)

contralto arias in the See also:

• MESSIAH (Dan. x. 25, 26)

Messiah are said to have been written for her . She played Zarah in See also:

• AARON

Aaron See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

Hill's version of See also:

• VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire's See also:

• ZAIRE

Zaire in 1736, and it was as a tragic actress, not as a See also:

• SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer, that her greatest triumphs were won . From See also:

• COLLEY, SIR GEORGE POMEROY (1835-1881)

Colley Cibber she learned a sing-See also:

• SONG

song method of declamation . Her mannerisms, however, did not obscure her real See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius, and she freed herself from them entirely when she began to See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act with See also:

• GARRICK, DAVID (1717-1779)

Garrick, with whom she was associated at See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane from 1753 . She died on the 3oth of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1766 . She married Theophilus Cibber in 1734, but lived with him but a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time . Appreciations of Mrs Cibber's See also:

• FINE

fine acting are to be found in many contemporary writers, one of the most discriminating being in the Rosciad of See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• CHURCHILL (MISSINNIPPI or ENGLISH)
• CHURCHILL, CHARLES (1731-1764)
• CHURCHILL, LORD RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER (1849-1895)

Churchill . Colley Cibber's youngest daughter, See also:

• CHARLOTTE

CHARLOTTE, married See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard Charke, a violinist, from whom she was soon separated . She began as an understudy to actresses in leading parts, but quarrelled with her manager, Charles See also:

• FLEETWOOD
• FLEETWOOD, CHARLES (d. 1692)
• FLEETWOOD, WILLIAM (1656-1723)

Fleetwood, on whom she wrote a one-act skit, The See also:

• ART

Art of Management (1735) .

She also wrote two comedies and two-novels of small merit, and an untrustworthy, but amusing Narrative of See also:

• LIFE

Life of . . . Charlotte Charke, . . . by herself (1755), reprinted in See also:

• HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM (183o-1896)
• HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)
• HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)
• HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
• HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)
• HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN (1827-1910)
• HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879)

Hunt and See also:

• CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
• CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
• CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
• CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
• CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
• CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
• CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
• CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
• CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
• CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
• CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
• CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)

Clarke's Autobiographies (1822) .