Mrs.+Frances+Abington


 * Frances Abington** **(1737-1815)**



Frances Abington was an English actress in the theater who is famous for her roles in a variety of different plays.

Frances was born into a very poor family and the daughter of a private soldier named Barton and worked selling flowers as well as a domestic servant and street singer in St.James Park under the nickname of "Nosegay Fan". She soon began acting and in 1755, at the age of 18 years old she began working alongside Theophilus Cibber at the Haymarket Theater, her debut stage name was Miranda in the Busybody where she distinguished herself to the point where in just one year she caught there attention of Drury Lane by the famous Samuel Foote recommendation.
 * Early Life**

Throughout her 43 career years she experienced a bit of everything in terms of roles, over 30 characters with examples of her diversity such as going from Berrt in Clandestine Marriage to Charlotte in Hypocrite, Charlotte Rusport in West Indian, Miss Hoyden in Trip to Scarborough. But the most important came playing Lady Teazle in The School of Scandal with famous individuals such as Drury Lane and st Covent Garden where she retired in the year of 1799. One of the main qualities she had was to have held plenty of positions, one of them at young age where she also learned how to speak french because that is what she did to adapt and involve, she grew up with the slams according to her when she went,
 * Diversity of Characters**
 * Diversity**

She was married up to 1759, she had a relationship with her husband but not the greatest according to sone views and his lack of money or self control provoked the divorce for both parties, after the divorce both never got to be the same. It was in Ireland that her marriage was falling apart, Frances paid her husband an annual allowance so he could leave her alone
 * Marriage**

At a young age she decided to venture out of London, England and she decided to move to Ireland where her first big success was down there and he ended up staying for 5 years.// //Her first performance in Dublin as Mrs Sullen in Farquhars on December 1759 was a instant debut classic.//
 * Ireland**

//**Fashion**// //Based on her portraits she was right there but some individuals would rather the old fashion way and we are going to teach you a bit of the dinamic and we couldn't make a better presence down here.// //In Ireland she earned the Abington Cap.// //Some of the normal style with her was a very long and unique hat as well as her clothes having hand made art work such as the wide and long skirts well famous at that period of time, the extravagant jewelry over even hats.//

//**Lucky breaks**// //She has had a very few situations can be, she was employed by a french milliner, that is when she started appreciating black and milds maybe they represent what was the smell exactly some of it yes.// //After the divorce where they were staying by each other for about 5 years she decided out of her thought process and her brain being as tired as before and overwhelmed.//

//**Acting Style**// //She was a comedy actress style and she was able to fix all the tradition of Sheridans conception, where she was considered a old/dark situation that leaves the person lonely as well.//

//**The Diva Complex**// //As the years progressed she became more and more demanding, she wasn't a easy employee, she often seemed issues with the people working for and often other actors commented that she was never truly happy at all when acting.//

//**Gambling**// //She is said to have retired with enough funds to cover her life but she was addicted to gambling and card in more specific, which lead her to also push everyone wrong her to add sleep depirvation.//

//**Death**// //She was a very reserved person and never asked money to anyone.// //before her death she wasn't traveling much for the last 20 years of her life due to grief for her husband.// //She loved portraits and everything else but after that day mosr of things happened, happened before work.// //When she left in 1799 she went to all the pahouse linger and nobody wanted them, their friends.// //She died at her Pall mall on 4 March 1815,//

//**Sources**// // J. Reynolds, oils, 1764–5, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire · J. Zoffany, oils, 1768, Petworth House, West Sussex · J. Watson, mezzotint, pubd 1769 (after J. Reynolds),, · J. Reynolds, oils, white domino, 1771, Yale U. CBA, Paul Mellon collection [ // see illus. // ] · T. Hickey, oils, 1775, · F. Bartolozzi, stipple, pubd 1783 (after R. Cosway),, · J. Sayers, caricature, etching, pubd 1786, · J. Sayers, etching, pubd 15 Feb 1786 (after his portrait), , · J. Thornthwaite, line engraving, pubd 1792 (after I. Taylor), , · S. W. Reynolds, mezzotint, pubd 1835 (after J. Reynolds), , · E. Judkins, mezzotint, pubd 1876 (after J. Reynolds), , · R. B. Parkes, mezzotint, pubd 1876 (after J. Reynolds), , · R. Cosway, portrait (as Thalia) · J. Reynolds, white domino (as Roxalana in // The sultan // ) · J. Roberts, drawings, · J. Roberts, watercolour on vellum, repro. in J. Bell, // Bell's edition of Shakespeare's plays //, 9 vols. (1773–4) [facs. edn (1969)] · R. West, chalk drawing, · Delftware wall tile, · mezzotint (after Reynolds), · portrait, repro. in // The life of Mrs Abington //, inside cover · portrait, repro. in Macqueen-Pope, // Ladies first //, 144 · portraits, repro. in Highfill, Burnim & Langhans, // BDA // · prints, //

// Abington, Frances (1737 - 1815)." // The Cambridge Guide to Theater //, edited by Martin Banham, Cambridge University Press, 2000. // Credo Reference, // []a/abington_frances_1737_1815/0. Accessed 03 Nov 2016." //

//__ Theatrical biography: or, memoirs of the principal performers of the three Theatres Royal Drury-Lane, Mr. Garrick, Mr. Barry, Mr. Reddish, Mr. Aickin, Mrs. Barry, Mrs Abington, Miss Younge, Mr. King, Mr. Moody, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, Miss Hayward, Mrs. Baddely, Miss Pope, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Baddely, Mrs. Egerton, Mrs. W. Barry, Mrs. Jefferies, Covent-Garden. Mr. Ross, ____ Mr ____. Smith, Mr. Savigny, Mr. Woodward, Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Mattocks, Mr. Yates, Mr. Shuter, Mr. Dyer, Miss Macklin, Mrs. Bulkley, Mr. Bensly, Mr. Mattocks, Mr. Clark, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Thompson, Hay-Market. Mr. Foote, Mr. Weston, Mrs. Gardner, Mr. J. Aickin, Mr. Didier, Mrs. Jewel, Mr. Davies, Mrs. Didier. Together with critical and impartial remarks on their respective professional merits. ... __ Vol. Volume 1. [Dublin], MDCCLXXII. [1772]. __Eighteenth Century Collections Online__. Gale. University of Maryland College Park. 3 Nov. 2016 //

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// Oddey, Alison. “Abington, Frances (1737–1815).” Alison Oddey //Oxford Dictionary of National Biography//. Online ed. Ed. David Cannadine. Oxford: OUP, 2004. 3 Nov. 2016 .