Maria Bland [née Romanzini]

(1769-1838)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bland, Mrs. (Maria Theresa Catherine), 1770-1838 DNB: Bland [née Romanzini], Maria Theresa (1769–1838), singer, LBT ID: MaBland1838 VIAF ID: 54072839 LOC ID: nr99037031	B/BAP: 1769 DIED: 1838-01-15
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English singer of Italian-Jewish origins; she performed at Drury Lane, Sadler's Wells, and Vauxhall Gardens, marrying the actor George Bland in 1790.
REFERENCES TO Maria Bland [née Romanzini]: William Hazlitt to William Hazlitt sen.; [July] 1790 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 2 January 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R & T Sheridan VIII Found 1: ¶ 8 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Chap. I 1778-1811 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1810 Found 1: ¶ 5