NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Tidswell, Charlotte, 1759 or 60-1846 DNB: Tidswell, Charlotte (1759/60–1846), actress LBT ID: ChTidsw1846 VIAF ID: 100750460 LOC ID: no2009139522 | B/BAP: 1759 DIED: 1846-09-03 |
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Actress at Drury Lane who specialized in chambermaid roles. At one time mistress to the
duke of Norfolk, she raised Edmund Kean, by some thought to be her son. Charles Lamb
described her as “the worst actress ever seen or heard.” | |