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    Harriet Constance Smithson (18 March 1800 – 3 March 1854), who also went by Henrietta Constance Smithson, Harriet Smithson Berlioz, and Miss H.C. Smithson...
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    twenty-four Berlioz fell in love with the Irish Shakespearean actress Harriet Smithson, and he pursued her obsessively until she finally accepted him seven...
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    beautiful and fascinating woman (in real life, the Shakespearean actress Harriet Smithson, who in 1833 became the composer's wife). The composer, who revered...
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    retailer H. Samuel Harriet Anne Scott (1819–1894), English novelist Harriet Smithson (1800–1854), Irish actress and first wife of Berlioz Harriet Mabel Spalding...
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    were inspired by the composer's unhappy love affairs, the symphony by Harriet Smithson, Lélio by Marie Moke, who had broken off her engagement to Berlioz...
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  • Smithson Annie M. P. Smithson, novelist Robert Smithson, American artist Carly Smithson, singer Florence Smithson, singer and actor Harriet Smithson,...
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  • (1913–2005), novelist Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Polish romantic poet Harriet Smithson (1808–1854), Anglo-Irish actress, the first wife of Hector Berlioz...
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  • composer's own romantic obsession (or erotomania) with the actress Harriet Smithson. Especially around the 1820s and 1830s, the concepts of idée fixe and...
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    Shakespeare in English at the Odéon. On 11 September 1827 the Irish actress Harriet Smithson played the part of Ophelia in Hamlet. Her mad scene appeared to owe...
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    fixation on suicide. Liszt acted as a witness at Berlioz's wedding to Harriet Smithson in 1833, despite cautioning Berlioz against it, and they worked together...
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    (1840–1889) singer and composer (born in Feakle but raised in Ennis) Harriet Smithson, actress and first wife of French composer Hector Berlioz Patrick Walshe...
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  • October 3 – French composer Hector Berlioz marries Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy in Paris with Liszt as one...
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  • Velid, Thomas Comer as Army officer, Benjamin Webster as a Slave, Harriet Smithson as Bathilda and Sarah West as Emerance. Kean was eager for a new play...
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    organised by Hector Berlioz for his bankrupt Shakespearean actress wife Harriet Smithson, during which they played George Onslow's Sonata in F minor for piano...
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    Garrick's edited version) at the Odéon Theatre in Paris. The cast included Harriet Smithson, who also inspired Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. In his Memoirs...
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  • will publish In Memoriam A.H.H. October 3 – The Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson marries the French composer Hector Berlioz in a civil ceremony at the...
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    heroine, Letitia Hardy, proved to be a successful vehicle in Paris for Harriet Smithson, who infatuated Hector Berlioz. It was also "a favorite role" for Ellen...
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    Volume XIV. A&C Black, 2013. Raby, Peter. Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Thompson, Christopher W...
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  • Francis Lieber, German-American jurist and philosopher (d. 1872) 1800 – Harriet Smithson, Irish actress, the first wife and muse of Hector Berlioz (d. 1854)...
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  • a member of the English company of actors performing in Paris with Harriet Smithson. At a still later period he led a company to Belgium and Germany, and...
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    Drama 1800-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1930. Raby, Peter. Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz. Cambridge University Press, 2003. v t e...
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    The Hunchback (1832). In 1827 Abbot organized the company, including Harriet Smithson, which acted Shakespeare in Paris. His position was as stage manager;...
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    Marie Taglioni, Fanny Elssler and Pauline Leroux, also the actress Harriet Smithson (the future wife of Hector Berlioz). Alphonse was created by Alexis...
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  • Langeais (1942) - Madame de Serizy La Symphonie fantastique (1942) - Harriet Smithson Twisted Mistress (1942) - Hélène Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary...
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    medallion featuring "Rachel" and a second bronze medallion depicts Harriet Smithson Sculpture of Mary Magdalene Paris Préault was responsible for the carving...
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    Paris performance of Hamlet, particularly admiring the madness of Harriet Smithson's Ophelia. In Germany, Hamlet had become so assimilated by the mid-19th...
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  • communications of the clergy begins publication in Dublin. 27 May – Harriet Smithson makes her stage debut at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, as Albina...
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  • built around 1741 by Robert Smithson. In 1957 it was moved to its present site. It is remembered in Durham as the Harriet Cooper Lane House after a long-term...
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  • Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret...
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  • Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast. Routledge, 2017. Raby, Peter. Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz. Cambridge University Press, 2003....
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