Lucia Elizabeth Vestris [née Bartolozzi]

(1797-1856)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856 LBT ID: LuVestr1856 VIAF ID: 6093005 LOC ID: n50053134	B/BAP: 1797-03-02 DIED: 1856-08-08
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English singer, actress, and manager of the Olympic Theatre in the 1830s; in 1838 she married the actor Charles James Mathews.
REFERENCES TO Lucia Elizabeth Vestris [née Bartolozzi]: Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 6: Periodical Press Found 1: ¶ 12 Ch. 15: Learned Societies Verse 2: p. 290a p. 290a Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter XIII Found 1: ¶ 8 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 11 Ch. XXI Found 1: ¶ 40 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 18: 1837-43 Found 1: ¶ 18 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) SIR SIDNEY SMITH Found 1: ¶ 3