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Sophia Baddeley

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At the height of her success and after separating from her husband in 1770, she discovered that she could sustain herself financially by finding wealthy benefactors and establishing herself as a courtesan to them. Probably her best-known lover was
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Abaco to Belfille
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on 12 October. She appeared as Fanny Sterling with Robert as Canton and Thomas King as Lord Ogleby. These three were painted in that role by
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She died of consumption, aged 41, the following year at her lodging at Shakespeare Square in Edinburgh at the east end of
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Baddeley was noted as a talented singer rather than as an actress, she obtained engagements at
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Highfill Jr, Philip H.; Burnim, Kalman A.; Langhans, Edward A. (1973).
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The memoirs of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley, late of Drury Lane Theatre
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Sophia is the subject of the second half of this article.
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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
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Johan Zoffany
Courtesan
Robert Baddeley
courtesan
Valentine Snow
George II

Joan of Arc
Robert Baddeley
Drury Lane
Hamlet
King Lear
Cymbeline
Twelfth Night
David Garrick
Stratford Jubilee
The Clandestine Marriage
Johan Zoffany
Garrick Club
Ranelagh
Vauxhall
Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne
Dublin
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Princes Street
The memoirs of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley, late of Drury Lane Theatre
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9780007113910

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