CHAPTER IX
November 17. Numbered X.
147. Mademoiselle Mars. See vol. VII., The Plain Speaker, pp. 324 et seq.
Mrs. Jordan. Dorothea or Dorothy Jordan (1762–1816). See vol. VIII., containing Hazlitt’s dramatic writings, for criticism upon her and the following actresses.
Mrs. Siddons. Sarah Siddons (1755–1831).
Miss Farren. Elizabeth Farren (1759?-1829), Countess of Derby. See vol. VIII., Lectures on the Comic Writers, 165, etc.
Mrs. Abington. Frances Abington (1737–1815).
Miss O’Neil. Eliza O’Neil (1791–1872), afterwards Lady Becher. See vol. I., The Round Table, note to p. [156], and vol. VIII. A View of the English Stage, p. 291.
Flavia the least and slightest toy. Bishop Atterbury’s Flavia’s Fan.
[149]. Monsieur Damas. For more than twenty-five years one of the most brilliant actors at the Comédie Française. He retired from the stage in 1825 and died in 1834.
[151]. Midsummer madness. Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc. 4.
Mr. Bartolino Saddletree. See Scott’s Heart of Midlothian.
Whole loosened soul.
Cf. ‘All my loose soul unbounded springs to thee.’
Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 228.
Mrs. Orger. Mrs. Mary Ann Orger (1788–1849), chiefly remembered for her excellence in farce at Drury Lane.
[152]. Mr. Braham. The famous tenor. See note to vol. VII., The Plain Speaker, p. 70.
Note. No single volume paramount. Wordsworth, Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty, XV., Sonnet beginning ‘Great men have been among us.’
[153]. Odry. Jacques-Charles Odry (1781–1853). He played at the Variétés for forty years, the idol of his audiences.
Monsieur Potier. Charles Potier (1775–1838), comic actor.
[154]. Brunet. Jean-Joseph Mira, called Brunet (1766–1851).
Talma. François Joseph Talma (1763–1826), one of the greatest of French tragic actors.
Mademoiselle Georges. Marguerite-Joséphine Weimer, otherwise Georges (1787–1867), one of the most famous actresses of her day, beautiful, haughty, and wayward.
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[154]. Madame Paradol. Anne-Catherine-Lucinde Prévost-Paradol (1798–1843).
Mademoiselle Duchesnois. Catherine-Joseph Rufuin, otherwise Duchesnois (1777–1835), classical tragédienne. She was an intimate friend of Talma, and has been considered his equal. The rivalry between her and the beautiful Mlle. Georges extended to their respective admirers and to the press.