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LACY, HARRIETTE DEBORAH (1807-1874)

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LACY, HARRIETTE See also:DEBORAH (1807-1874) , See also:English actress, was See also:born in See also:London, the daughter of a tradesman named See also:Taylor. Her first See also:appearance on the See also:stage was at See also:Bath in 1827 as Julia in The Rivals, and she was immediately given leading parts there in both See also:comedy and tragedy. Her first London appearance was in 183o as Nina, in Dimond's See also:Carnival of See also:Naples. Her Rosalind, Aspatia (to See also:Macready's Melantius) in The Bridal, and See also:Lady Teazle to the See also:Charles See also:Surface of See also:Walter Lacy (1809–1898)—to whom she was married in 1839—confirmed her position and popularity. She was the See also:original See also:Helen in The Hunchback (1832), and also created Nell Gwynne in See also:Jerrold's See also:play of that name, and the heroine in his Housekeeper. She was considered the first Ophelia of her See also:day. She retired in 1848.

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