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SUSANNAH MARIA See also:CIBBER (1714-1766) , wife of See also:Theophilus, was an actress of distinction. She was the daughter of a Covent See also:Garden See also:upholsterer, and See also:sister of Dr See also:Arne (1710—1778) the composer. Mrs Cibber had a beautiful See also:voice and began her career in See also:opera. She was the See also:original Galatea in See also:Handel's See also:Acis and Galatea, and the See also:contralto arias in the See also:Messiah are said to have been written for her. She played Zarah in See also:Aaron See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill's version of See also:Voltaire's See also:Zaire in 1736, and it was as a tragic actress, not as a See also:singer, that her greatest triumphs were won. From See also:Colley Cibber she learned a sing-See also:song method of declamation. Her mannerisms, however, did not obscure her real See also:genius, and she freed herself from them entirely when she began to See also:act with See also:Garrick, with whom she was associated at See also:Drury See also:Lane from 1753. She died on the 3oth of See also:January 1766. She married Theophilus Cibber in 1734, but lived with him but a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. Appreciations of Mrs Cibber's See also:fine acting are to be found in many contemporary writers, one of the most discriminating being in the Rosciad of See also:Charles See also:Churchill.
Colley Cibber's youngest daughter, See also:CHARLOTTE, married See also:Richard Charke, a violinist, from whom she was soon separated. She began as an understudy to actresses in leading parts, but quarrelled with her manager, Charles See also:Fleetwood, on whom she wrote a one-act skit, The See also:Art of Management (1735). She also wrote two comedies and two-novels of small merit, and an untrustworthy, but amusing Narrative of See also:Life of . . . Charlotte Charke, . . . by herself (1755), reprinted in See also:Hunt and See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke's Autobiographies (1822).
End of Article: SUSANNAH MARIA CIBBER (1714-1766)
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