Our Actresses; Or, Glances At Stage Favourites, Past And Present: Or ... 1
Our Actresses; Or, Glances At Stage Favourites, Past And Present: Or ... 1
Cornwell Baron Wilson
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Experientia docet«. "/ \ Jh^-ir-^^ f"^ -^^-^T HAfl *ii^w. ' t ft t " leave his children fortunes, imparted to them those G 5 /^ /^^.z^ MISS ELLEN TREE, NOW MRS. CHARLES KEAN. ** Soft as the memory of buried love ; Pure as the prayer that childhood wafts aboTe, Was she " Btrov. This lady we may fairly say is of a " theatrical family ;" as her two senior sisters essayed in that profession, and with success, while she was in her girlhood, — "creeping like snail, unwillingly to school." She is the ...third of four accomplished daughters of a highly respectable gentleman, now no more ; but who, while living held a situation in one of the government offices, and who, as he could not leave his children fortunes, imparted to them those Q 6 130 MEMOIR OF accomplishments^ by which they could themselves attain fortune. The public approbation won by her sister Maria (now Mrs. Bradshaw) first turned her attention to the stage as a profession ; and after some trifling pre- liminary practice at a pretty little private theatre, with various tyros in the art, (amongst whom was a son of Mr.
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