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    Helena Saville Faucit, Lady Martin (11 October 1817 – 31 October 1898) was an English actress. Born in London, she was the daughter of actors John Saville...
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  • known as Mrs Faucit Helena Faucit (1817–1898), English actress This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Faucit. If an internal...
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    played Benedick in 1748 and continued to play him until 1776. In 1836, Helena Faucit played Beatrice at the very beginning of her career at Covent Garden...
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  • as Mrs Faucit. They had six children including the actress Helena Faucit (also known as Helen). Carlisle, Carol J. "Saville [Savill], John Faucit (1783...
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    Melnotte in The Lady of Lyons with Helena Faucit as Pauline, and Valence in Browning's Colombe's Birthday, with Helena Faucit in the part of Colombe. Towards...
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  • Louisa Cranstoun Nisbett (1812–1858) Sarah Fairbrother (1814–1890) Helena Faucit (1817–1898) Clara Fisher (1811–1898) Isabella Glyn (1823–1889) Thomas...
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    Bennett as Denzil Hollis, John Langford Pritchard as Benjamin Rudyard and Helena Faucit as Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle. It was one of the last plays to...
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    played host and was subsequently knighted), and Shakespearean actress Helena Faucit (Beyer's nearest neighbour, at Bryntysilio Hall, with her husband Sir...
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    wrote Lives of Professor Aytoun and Lord Lyndhurst. In 1851 he married Helena Faucit, a well-known actress, and author of studies on Shakespeare's Female...
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    members included James Prescott Warde as Creon, Henry Howe as Lycus and Helena Faucit as Creusa. Talfourd dedicated the play to Lord Denman, the Lord Chief...
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    Samuel Phelps performed the title role at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Helena Faucit returned to the stage for this performance. The play was also one of...
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    cast included William Macready as Ion, Ellen Tree (and subsequently Helena Faucit) as Clemanthe, John Vandenhoff as Adrastus, King of Argos, Charles Thompson...
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    as Joseph, George John Bennett as Huguet, Henry Howe as Francois and Helena Faucit as Julie De Mortemar. The play has become best known for its line "The...
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  • headmaster of Harrow School John Saville Faucit, father of Helena Faucit Harriet Faucit (1789–1857), mother of Helena Faucit Forde, Lauren (23 July 2019). "Our...
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    Elton as Pheax, George Bennett as Lycias, Charles Selby as Macro and Helena Faucit as Sophronia. Its opening resembles William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar...
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    Royal, Covent Garden on 4 January 1837. The original cast included Helena Faucit as Louise de la Vallière, William Macready as the Marquis Alphonso de...
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    Faucit Savill; shortly afterwards they appeared on stage at Margate and then Dover and as "Mr & Mrs Faucit". They had six children, including Helena or...
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    June 1840. The cast included William Macready as Halbert MacDonald, Helena Faucit as Helen Campbell, Henry Howe as Henry MacDonald, Benjamin Webster as...
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    John Langford Pritchard as Felton, John Pritt Harley as Clever and Helena Faucit as Hero. Knowles dedicated the play to the writer Samuel Rogers. The...
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    George Yarnold as Solicitor, Mary Warner as Lady Lydia Lynterne and Helena Faucit as Lady Mabel Lynterne. Downer p.220 Nicoll p.343 Downer, Alan Seymour...
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  • actress Helena Faucit. From 1930 to 1936, Farrar was regularly featured in the school's on-air outlet, the dramatic anthology series, The Faucit Theatre...
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  • Armstrong, Helena Faucit as Lady Laura Gaveston and Leonora Wigan as Emmeline. Nicoll p.339 Carlisle p.102 Carlisle, Carol Jones. Helen Faucit: Fire and...
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    Henry Oxberry as Smoothly, George John Bennett as Captain Darnel and Helena Faucit as Lady Dorothy Cromwell. The play was not a great success, partly due...
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    Lyceum Theatre by Henry Irving's company in Martin's version, starring Helena Faucit Martin in the title role and Irving as Count Tristan. A version of the...
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    play premiered at Covent Garden Theatre in London on 15 February 1838. Helena Faucit played Pauline, with William Macready as Melnotte. Its first production...
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    busts, both in marble, of the poet Bryan Procter and of the actress Helena Faucit by Foley List of public art in the City of London List of public art...
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    building was also used an events venue: performers included the actress, Helena Faucit, who read passages written by William Shakespeare there in autumn 1877...
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    Prince Albert, and of his wife, Shakespearean actress Lady Martin (Helena Faucit). Sir Theodore wrote most of the book whilst at Bryntysilio, which was...
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    Queen Victoria, Elizabeth Dean Robertson, Henry Robertson's wife, and Helena Faucit, celebrated Shakespearean actress (Beyer's nearest neighbour, at Bryntysilio...
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    author Sir Theodore Martin, which mainly relate to his wife, actress Helena Faucit. The Weir Collection is one of the biggest resources at the National...
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