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Anna Marcella Giffard

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who had been acting at Smock Alley for some years. He had previously been married to Mary Lyddal, probably Anna Marcella's sister, with whom he had two children including
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Garrick to Gyngell
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She accompanied her husband to London in 1729 and frequently appeared alongside him over the coming years. She made her British debut at the
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largely ended this attempt, and in subsequent years they played in many theatres around Britain and Ireland as well as the
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under the name of Nancy Lyddal in the 1720s. In around 1728 she married the English actor
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was also an actress who worked extensively on the Irish and British stage. Her nephew
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Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A.
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Index

Jane Egleton
stage actress
Dublin
Smock Alley Theatre
Henry Giffard
William Giffard
playbills
Goodman's Fields Theatre
patent
Licensing Act 1737
Drury Lane
Covent Garden
Haymarket Theatres
Brentford
Sarah Hamilton
William Hamilton
The Orphan
The Widow Bewitched
The Fashionable Lady
The Fall of the Earl of Essex
Scanderbeg
The Parricide
King Charles I
The Independent Patriot
A Tutor for the Beaus
The Fatal Retirement
Mustapha
Love the Cause and Cure of Grief
Mahomet the Imposter
The Astrologer

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