Charlotte Melmoth

Charlotte Melmoth
Mrs Charlotte Melmoth as 'Roxana' in "The Rival Queens"
Mrs Charlotte Melmoth as 'Roxana' in "The Rival Queens"
Borncirca 1749
Died(1823-09-28)September 28, 1823
Brooklyn, New York
OccupationActress, teacher
LanguageEnglish, Irish
NationalityEnglish
PartnerSamuel Jackson Pratt (17??–1781; separated)

Mrs Charlotte Melmoth (c. 1749 – 1823) was an 18th-century English actress, the estranged spouse of British actor/writer Samuel Jackson Pratt ("Courtney Melmoth"), and known as "The Grande Dame of Tragedy on the Early American Stage".[1] After a moderately successful stage career in Great Britain and Ireland, she emigrated to the United States of America in 1793 and became one of the best-known actresses of the late 18th/early 19th century.[2][3]

  1. ^ The Oxford companion to American theatre by Gerald Martin Bordman, Thomas S. Hischak
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