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Lane, where her beauty rather than her ability slowly brought her into favour, and it was not until ten years later that she was generally acknowledged as the best actress of her time. In polite See also:

COMEDY

comedy, especially, she was unrivalled, and even the usually grudging See also:

Cibber acknowledged that she had as much as he to do with the success of the Careless See also:

HUSBAND

Husband (1704), in which she created the See also:

PART

part of See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady Modish, reluctantly given her because Mrs See also:

VERBRUGGEN, SUSANNA (c. 1667-1703)

Verbruggen was See also:

ill. In tragedy, too, she won laurels, and the See also:

list of her parts, many of them See also:

ORIGINAL

original, is a See also:

long and varied one. She was the theatrical idol of her See also:

day. Her exquisite acting and lady-like See also:

CARRIAGE

carriage were the delight of her contemporaries, and her beauty and generosity found innumerable eulogists, as well as sneering detractors. See also:

Alexander See also:

Pope, in his Sober See also:

ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

Advice from See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace, wrote of her " Engaging Oldfield, who, with See also:

grace and ease, . Could join the arts to ruin and to please." It was to her that the satirist alluded as the lady who detested being buried in woollen, who said to her maid " No, let a charming See also:

CHINTZ

chintz and See also:

BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels See also:

LACE (corresponding to Ital. merletto, trina; Genoese Pizzo; Ger. spitzen; Fr. dentelle; Dutch kanten; Span. encaje; the English word owes something to the Fr. lassis or laces, but both are connected with the earlier Lat. laqueus; early French laces were

lace Wrap my See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold limbs and shade my lifeless See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face; One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead, And—See also:

BETTY, WILLIAM HENRY WEST (1791-1874)

Betty—give this cheek a little red." She was but See also:

FORTY

forty-seven when she died on the 23rd of See also:

OCTOBER

October =730, leaving all the See also:

court and See also:

HALF

half the See also:

TOWN

town in tears. She divided her See also:

PROPERTY

property, for that time a large one, between her natural sons, the first by See also:

Arthur Mainwaring (1668–1712)—who had See also:

LEFT

left her and his son half his See also:

FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune on his See also:

DEATH

death—and the second by Lieut.-See also:

General See also:

Charles See also:

Churchill (d. 1745). Mrs Oldfield was buried in See also:

Westminster See also:

Abbey, beneath the See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument to See also:

Congreve, but when Churchill applied for per-See also:

MISSION

mission to erect a monument there to her memory the See also:

dean of Westminster refused it.

End of Article: OLDFIELD, ANNE (1683–173o)

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