Frances Abington [née Barton]

(1737-1815)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Abington, Mrs. (Frances Barton), 1737-1815 DNB: Abington [née Barton], Frances [Fanny] (1737-1815), actress LBT ID: FrAbing1815 VIAF ID: 49153847 LOC ID: nr2001011606	B/BAP: 1737 DIED: 1815-03-04
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English actress, originally a flower girl and street-singer; she performed at Drury Lane and, from 1782, at Covent Garden.
REFERENCES TO Frances Abington [née Barton]: Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ n1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1816-1818. Found 1: ¶ 11