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Harriet Smithson | |
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 Harriet Smithson by Dubufe, c. 1828. Musee Magnin, Dijon | |
| Born | Harriet Constance Smithson 18 March 1800 |
| Died | 3 March 1854 (aged 53) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Shakespearean actress |
| Years active | 1814–1837 |
| Spouse |
Hector Berlioz
(m. 1833; died 1854) |
Harriet Constance Smithson (18 March 1800 – 3 March 1854), who also went by Henrietta Constance Smithson,[1] Harriet Smithson Berlioz,[2] and Miss H.C. Smithson,[3] was an Anglo-Irish Shakespearean actress of the 19th century, best known as the first wife and muse of Hector Berlioz.
- ^ , Murphy, Groghegan, 2015 p.196.
- ^ Raby, Peter (1982). 'Fair Ophelia': A life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz. Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-24421-8.
- ^ Oxberry 1825, p.195.