Elizabeth O'Neill (actress)

Elizabeth O'Neill
Elizabeth O'Neill
Born	1791
Died	29 October 1872

Elizabeth O'Neill (1791 – 29 October 1872), also Eliza, was an Irish actress.

Biography[]

Study for Miss O'Neill as Juliet, by George Dawe, 1816, painted two years after her success as Juliet

Born in Drogheda, she was the daughter of an actor and stage manager.^[1] Her first appearance on the stage was made at the Crow Street Theatre in 1811 as the Widow Cheerly in Andrew Cherry's The Soldier's Daughter, and after several years in Ireland she came to London and made an immediate success as Juliet at Covent Garden in 1814. For five years she was the favorite of London town in comedy as well as tragedy, but in the latter she particularly excelled, being frequently compared, not to her disadvantage, with the great Sarah Siddons.^[2]

In 1819 she married , an Irish M.P., who was to be created a baronet in 1831. After her marriage, she never returned to the stage.^[2]^[1]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "CollectionsOnline - Name". Garrick.ssl.co.uk. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "O'Neill, Eliza". Encyclopædia Britannica. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 111.

External links[]

Eliza O'Neill in Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States, Volume 2, edited by Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton
Eliza O'Neill in Bow Bells, by J. Dicks
Eliza O'Neill in The Autographic Mirror, Volume 3
Beecher, Lady Wrixon nee Eliza O'Neill in Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing ...
Miss O'Neill (Lady Wrixon Beecher) in Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted ..., Volume 1, by Elizabeth Casey
Eliza O'Neill at historyswomen.com

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[EB1911-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "O'Neill, Eliza". Encyclopædia Britannica. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 111.

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Elizabeth O'Neill (actress)

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