Famous First RepresentationsChapman and Hall, limited, 1886 - Broj stranica: 253 |
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... Gwyn to the stage . The young orange - girl was already known to habitual playgoers , and there is probably no more familiar passage in Pepys's Diary than the one in which he speaks of his first interview with " pretty , witty Nell ...
... Gwyn to the stage . The young orange - girl was already known to habitual playgoers , and there is probably no more familiar passage in Pepys's Diary than the one in which he speaks of his first interview with " pretty , witty Nell ...
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... Gwyn's ancestry , could only discover , in reference to the mother , that she was fat and drank brandy . The father is variously reported to have been a captain in the army and a fruiterer in Covent Garden Market . It was , in any case ...
... Gwyn's ancestry , could only discover , in reference to the mother , that she was fat and drank brandy . The father is variously reported to have been a captain in the army and a fruiterer in Covent Garden Market . It was , in any case ...
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... worth of oranges from her at sixpence apiece . " The author of the Memoirs of the Life of Eleanor Gwyn , a Celebrated Courtezan in the Reign of King Charles II . , and Mistress to the Monarch , 4 FAMOUS FIRST REPRESENTATIONS .
... worth of oranges from her at sixpence apiece . " The author of the Memoirs of the Life of Eleanor Gwyn , a Celebrated Courtezan in the Reign of King Charles II . , and Mistress to the Monarch , 4 FAMOUS FIRST REPRESENTATIONS .
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... Gwyn had , according to her eighteenth century biographer , a propensity , rather than a genius , for acting . Whether this writer ever saw her may well be doubted , for she died in 1687 , and it has been seen that the so - called ...
... Gwyn had , according to her eighteenth century biographer , a propensity , rather than a genius , for acting . Whether this writer ever saw her may well be doubted , for she died in 1687 , and it has been seen that the so - called ...
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... Gwyn from personal knowledge . The writer , Downes , was indeed a member of the company to which she belonged ; and after stating that she was " a plebeian of the lowest rank , and sold oranges in the theatre , " he declares that ...
... Gwyn from personal knowledge . The writer , Downes , was indeed a member of the company to which she belonged ; and after stating that she was " a plebeian of the lowest rank , and sold oranges in the theatre , " he declares that ...
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Stranica 9 - But, Lord ! to see how they were both painted would make a man mad, and did make me loath them ; and what base company of men comes among them, and how lewdly they talk ! and how poor the men are in clothes, and yet what a show they make on the stage by candle-light, is very observable.