By Philip H Highfill Jr
Those featured in quantity 10 contain Margaret Martyr, a singer, actress, and dancer whose “conjugal virtues have been usually impeached,” in accordance with the July 1792 Thespian journal. The Dictionary describes this least consistent of enthusiasts as “of middling peak, with a determine well-proportioned for breeches elements. [Her] black-haired, black-eyed good looks and transparent soprano made her an immediate renowned good fortune in merry maids and tuneful minxes, the piquant and the pert, for 1 / 4 century.”
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Hopwood, published as a plate to Doran's Annals of the English Stage, 1888; and by unknown engraver, undated. C. Ridley as plates to Kirkman's Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, 1799, and to William Cooke's Memoirs of Charles Macklin, 1804. Published as a plate to British Theatre, Dublin, 1793. Read as a plate to Ryan's Dramatic Table Talk, 1825. Reproduced in Mander and Mitchenson's A Picture History of the British Stage (pl 107). Pen drawing in a Folger Library commonplace book. Published as a plate to Hibernian Magazine, February 1771.
Perhaps the same as No 32, above. Example in the City of Manchester Art Gallery. Published by Wenman, 1777. Explained in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum (No 5203). " Macklin with 15 other actors on stage. 300; the print is explained in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum (No 2599). " By unknown engraver. By unknown engraver. 1758, actress, dancer, singer. For it appears that she never formally married him. She apparently then retreated to Ireland.
Probably at some time between 1748 and 1750 the Macklins' second child, John, was born. In the fall they signed on with John Rich at Covent Garden. Her only other new roles that season were Lady Cockwood in She Wou'd If She Cou'd and Viletta in She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not. She was absent from the stage in 1753–54, except for a single appearance at the special benefit given Macklin at Drury Lane on 20 December 1753 so that he might, in a "farewell epilogue," tout his new elocutionary enterprise.
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