Madame Lucia Vestris

Standard Name: Vestris, Madame Lucia

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Friends, Associates Dinah Mulock Craik
In London, the young Dinah Mulock was able to attend the theatre regularly, thanks to the offer of a private Covent Garden Theatre box for her family from Charles James Mathews and his wife...
Leisure and Society Mary Brunton
As tourists MB and her husband were just as interested in cultural events, industries, and industrial and military trade as they were in, for instance, old buildings. On her first visit to London she attended...
Publishing Emma Robinson
About the time she published her first novel, ER also composed a three-act play entitled Richelieu in Love.
The duc de Richelieu , churchman and statesman,Cardinal and French Prime Minister, had had areputation as...
Reception Catherine Gore
Quid Pro Quo proved as controversial in production as in competition. Madame Vestris , Charles Mathews , and Anne Jackson Mathews refused to play the parts assigned them and substitutes had to be found.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
25-6, 28
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Christopher St John
The First Actress draws an implicit parallel between the admission of women to the vote and their admission to stage acting at the Restoration. Peggy Hughes , presented as first woman in the London professional...

Timeline

20 July 1815: Madame Vestris made her operatic debut as...

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20 July 1815

Madame Vestris made her operatic debut as the leading lady of the King's Theatre , aged only eighteen.
Appleton, William Worthen. Madame Vestris and the London Stage. Columbia University Press, 1974.
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19 February 1820: Madame Vestris starred in a comic opera at...

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19 February 1820

Madame Vestris starred in a comic opera at Drury Lane Theatre to mixed reviews; she did not achieve fame until she started playing male roles.
Appleton, William Worthen. Madame Vestris and the London Stage. Columbia University Press, 1974.
16-19, 29, 33

6 December 1830: Lucia Vestris became the first long-term...

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6 December 1830

Lucia Vestris became the first long-term female theatre manager of the century, when she reopened the Olympic Theatre .
Appleton, William Worthen. Madame Vestris and the London Stage. Columbia University Press, 1974.
51
Booth, Michael R. et al. Three Tragic Actresses: Siddons, Rachel, Ristori. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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3 January 1831: London Society was introduced to the management...

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3 January 1831

London Society was introduced to the management of Lucia Vestris at the Olympic Theatre with the opening of Olympic Revels; or, Prometheus and Pandora.
Moody, Jane. “Illusions of authorship”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 99-124.
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3 January 1831: London Society was introduced to the management...

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3 January 1831

London Society was introduced to the management of Lucia Vestris at the Olympic Theatre with the opening of Olympic Revels; or, Prometheus and Pandora.
Moody, Jane. “Illusions of authorship”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 99-124.
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March 1841: The young Dionysius Lardner Boucicault's...

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March 1841

The young Dionysius Lardner Boucicault 's London Assurance was staged at Covent Garden by Charles James Mathews and Madame Vestris .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
207

November 1842: Elizabeth Planché's comedy The Welsh Girl...

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November 1842

Elizabeth Planché 's comedy The Welsh Girl premiered at the Haymarket .
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
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10 November 1873: The first of actress and manager Sarah Lane's...

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10 November 1873

The first of actress and manager Sarah Lane 's French translations appeared on the stage of the Britannia Theatre .
Kaplan, Fred. Dickens: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton, 1988.
127, 131

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