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Title: Some celebrated Irish beauties of the last century
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Gerard, Frances A
Subjects: Women
Publisher: London, Ward and Downey limited
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston College Libraries

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ncy, and her taste led her to preferlight comedy, but either her managers or the public forced herto play romantic heroines. Towards the end of 1777 an event happened which in-fluenced the young actresss future, and changed her positionvery considerably. It would be idle to speculate whether,without the incentive of a coronet in the future. Miss Farrenslife would have been so entirely sans re^jroche as it was ; sheno doubt had everything to gain by an exercise of properrestraint, and it is due to her to say she realized this fact verythoroughly, and never lost sight of the end she had in view.That her dreams of future greatness depended for fulfilmentupon the length of life accorded to another woman, wouldseem to some minds unpleasantly calculative. But it doesnot appear to have shocked her ideas of decorum, or thoseof that dragon of propriety, her watchful mother, that theencouragement she gave to the attentions of a married manwere hardly in accordance with the Farren standard. Lord
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MISS FAEREN, COUNTESS OF DERBY. lTofacei)affe 266. Miss Farren, Countess of Derby. 257 Derby, it is true, was not living happily with his wife, but it isworthy of notice that there was no talk of a separation untilafter his admiration for Miss Farren had become the passionof his life. It has been said that this attachment began afterLord Derbys separation from Lady Derby, which separationwas due to her levity of conduct; an examination of thosesilent witnesses dates disproves this statement. It wasin 1777 that Miss Farren first met her noble lover; theoccasion some amateur theatricals given by the Duke ofRichmond at Whitehall i*lace. The play was the Heiress written by General Burgoyne/ who only three years previouslyhad composed the Masques in honour of Lord Stanleysmarriage with Lady Betty Hamilton.- Since then Lord Stanley had succeeded to his grandfatherstitle and estate- He and his beautiful young wife were livingapparently happily together; he had just begun the em- ^ General Bn

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