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    washing while Peg sold watercress door to door. Madame Violante, a famous tightrope walker took her on as her apprentice. Her sister Mary Woffington was also...
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  • Peg Woffington (1720–1760) was an Irish actress and socialite of the Georgian era. Peg Woffington may also refer to: Peg Woffington (1910 film), an American...
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    Mary Woffington Cholmondeley (1729 – 4 April 1811) was an Irish socialite of the Georgian era. Her sister was the famous actor Peg Woffington. After a...
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    Peg Woffington is an 1853 novel by the British author Charles Reade. It was inspired by the popular stage play Masks and Faces which he had co-written...
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  • Peg Woffington is a 1910 American silent historical film directed by Edwin S. Porter and starring Florence Turner as the eighteenth century Irish actress...
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  • Peg Woffington is a 1912 British silent historical film directed by A. E. Coleby and starring Leslie Howard Gordon. The film is based on the 1852 play...
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  • Margaretta Scott. The film is a biopic of 18th century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces by Charles Reade and Tom Taylor...
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    theatre. That same month, Garrick played King Lear opposite Margaret "Peg" Woffington as Cordelia and his popular Richard III. With these successes, Fleetwood...
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    followed up with another real-life figure, portraying Irish actress Peg Woffington in Peg of Old Drury (1936). That same year, she appeared in Limelight,...
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    Monument to Peg Woffington (1720–1760) in St Mary's church, Teddington which describes her marital status....
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  • given a royal name. Fillets à la Peg WoffingtonPeg Woffington, Irish actress (1720–1760). A recipe exists for "Woffington Sauce" for fish, and also for...
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    she was portrayed by Helen Faucit, Dora Jordan, Frances Abington, and Peg Woffington, who won her first real fame by playing the role. Theatre manager Tate...
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    taken ill, and the opening was delayed until the following 22 January. Peg Woffington, playing Helena, fainted on the first night and her part was read. Milward...
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    UK". GOV.UK. Retrieved 10 August 2021. Byrne-Costigan, Ethna (1979). "Peg Woffington". Dublin Historical Record. 33 (1): 19. ISSN 0012-6861. JSTOR 30104171...
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    Max Stafford-Clark Royal Court Theatre 2002–2003 A Laughing Matter Peg Woffington / Hannah More Max Stafford-Clark Lyttelton Theatre UK tour 2002-2003...
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  • Whimsey, William Giffard as Young Detrell, Edward Berry as Siftem, Peg Woffington as Laetitia and Anna Marcella Giffard as Clara. The epilogue was written...
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  • environmental advocate Peg Shreve (1927–2012), American politician Peg Taylor (cricketer) (1917–2004), New Zealand cricketer Peg Woffington (1720–1760), Irish...
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    instead performed by a group of children (including an eleven-year-old Peg Woffington) in January 1732 at Signora Violante's New Booth in Dame Street. It...
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    Harold Fraser-Simson and Ivor Novello; a rewrite of 1919's Our Peg, replacing Peg Woffington with Nell Gwyn. (The 1922 Broadway musical by George Gershwin...
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    d'Éon. In 1750, he began an affair with a well-known English actress Peg Woffington, who was on tour in Paris, and accompanied her back to London and Dublin...
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