Author | : Philip H. Highfill |
File Size | : 52,6 Mb |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 06 May 1973 |
ISBN | : 0809311305 |
Pages | : 444 pages |
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors Actresses Musicians Dancers Managers Other Stage Personnel in London 1660 1800 by Philip H. Highfill Book PDF Summary
Those featured in Volume 10 include Margaret Martyr, a singer, actress, and dancer whose "conjugal virtues were often impeached," according to the July 1792Thespian Magazine. The Dictionary describes this least constant of lovers as "of middling height, with a figure well-proportioned for breeches parts. [Her] black-haired, black-eyed beauty and clear soprano made her an immediate popular success in merry maids and tuneful minxes, the piquant and the pert, for a quarter century."