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... death the pride with which Peg Woffington had fought in life , applying the mask of virtue and social camouflage that she had always rejected , turning her into another pious Magdalen who had seen the light . Even now , two hundred ...
... death the pride with which Peg Woffington had fought in life , applying the mask of virtue and social camouflage that she had always rejected , turning her into another pious Magdalen who had seen the light . Even now , two hundred ...
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... death he fell in love for the last time with a Kemble : Sarah's niece Fanny . Perhaps Roger Manvell is right in maintaining that it was Mrs Siddons that Lawrence had loved all the time , since his boyhood ; and that he was for her ' the ...
... death he fell in love for the last time with a Kemble : Sarah's niece Fanny . Perhaps Roger Manvell is right in maintaining that it was Mrs Siddons that Lawrence had loved all the time , since his boyhood ; and that he was for her ' the ...
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... death . There is some evidence for this in the fact that virtually the only new plays in which she was a success , through over forty years in the profession , were The Stranger ( 1798 ) and Pizarro ( 1799 ) , which she first played in ...
... death . There is some evidence for this in the fact that virtually the only new plays in which she was a success , through over forty years in the profession , were The Stranger ( 1798 ) and Pizarro ( 1799 ) , which she first played in ...
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