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PRITCHARD, HANNAH (1711-1768)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 370 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ENGLISH

English actress, whose name before her See also:

early See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage—to an actor—was See also:

Vaughan, first attracted See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention as a See also:

SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer at See also:

Bartholomew's See also:

FAIR

Fair in 1733. She was soon playing a wide variety of parts, mostly See also:

COMEDY

comedy, at the Haymarket, See also:

DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

Lane and Covent See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden. When See also:

GARRICK, DAVID (1717-1779)

Garrick became patentee of Drury Lane in 1747 she joined his See also:

COMPANY

company and played with him for twenty years, her last See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance being as 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 See also:

MACBETH

Macbeth—one of her greatest relies—in See also:

APRIL

April 1768, a few months before her See also:

DEATH

death. Her talents were highly thought of by the critics of the See also:

day. Her daughter, who had studied under Garrick, and whose beauty created a sensation when she made her debut (as " See also:

MISS

Miss Pritchard ") in See also:

OCTOBER

October 1756, did not live up to the expectations then raised. She married in 1762 the actor See also:

John See also:

Palmer, retired from the See also:

STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage at the same See also:

time as her See also:

MOTHER

mother, and after her See also:

HUSBAND

husband's death married a See also:

POLITICAL

political writer named See also:

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