Maria Stanhope, countess of Harrington [née Foote]

(1797-1867)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Foote, Maria, 1797?-1867 DNB: Foote, Maria [married name Maria Stanhope, countess of Harrington] (1797-1867), actress LBT ID: MaFoote1867 VIAF ID: 46598323 LOC ID: nr00003235	B/BAP: 1797-07-24 DIED: 1867-12-27
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English actress; in 1814 made her debut at Covent Garden as Amanthis in The Child of Nature; she retired in 1825 following a successful and notorious breech of promise suit. In 1831 she married Charles Stanhope, fourth earl of Harrington (1780-1851).
REFERENCES TO Maria Stanhope, countess of Harrington [née Foote]: Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [22 October 1822] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1814 Found 1: ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1825 Found 1: ¶ 15 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1822 Found 1: ¶ 1