Leah Sumbel
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Standard Name: Sumbel, Leah
Birth Name: Mary Stephens Davies
Married Name: Mary Stephens Wells
Nickname: Cowslip
Nickname: Becky
Pseudonym: Old Kent
Self-constructed Name: Mary Weston
Married Name: Mary Stephens Sumbel
Self-constructed Name: Leah Sumbel
, an actress of the later eighteenth century, became a remarkable memoirist as well as a journalist and a dabbler in writing for the stage. Her account of her life may be grouped with courtesan-memoirs or with theatrical memoirs.
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Texts
Sumbel, Leah. Memoirs. C. Chapple, 1811, 3 vols.