Dorothea Celesia

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Standard Name: Celesia, Dorothea
Birth Name: Dorothea Mallet
DC was an Englishwoman who lived for most of her adult life in Genoa, the native country of her husband. Her published works are a tragedy, staged in 1771, and a long poem of the following year.

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Literary responses Frances Brooke
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Occupation David Garrick
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Scott
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