This too was printed for the Author. Copies cost six shillings. This appears to be the first edition, though the work had been advertised as Now ready for the Press, and will be Publish'd...
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21 February 1765: Frances Brooke (as Mary Singleton) published...
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21 February 1765
Frances Brooke
(as Mary Singleton) published a rebuke to two upper-class ladies for rudeness to the actress George Anne Bellamy
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Crouch, Kimberly. “The public life of actresses: prostitutes or ladies?”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 58-78.
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By 2 June 1787: Elizabeth Steele published The Memoirs of...
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By 2 June 1787
Elizabeth Steele
published The Memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley, an actress famed for her beauty and her singing voice, who had been, intermittently, a long-term friend and associate of Steele and had died the...