George John Bennett
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George John Bennett was for nearly 40 years a Shakespearian actor on the London stage, notably Covent Garden and Drury Lane.
George Bennett as Cassius in 'Julius Caesar', 1831
Mary Russell Mitford
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Mary Russell Mitford was an English essayist, novelist, poet and dramatist. She was born in New Alresford in Hampshire, England. She is best known for Our Village, a series of sketches of village scen
George John Bennett
…and this helped the extraordinary natural genius he had demonstrated earlier. Amongst the roles added to his repertoire were the Duke of Malfi, in Mitford's Julian, Figaro in "The Marriage of Figaro," Frankenstein in "Presumption," Telaxo in Cortez, Caspar in "Der Freischütz." and Old Foster in 'Woman never…
Mitford by Benjamin Haydon, 1824