Margaret Woffington [Peg]

(1720-1760)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Woffington, Margaret, d. 1760 DNB: Woffington, Margaret [Peg] (1720?-1760), actress LBT ID: MaWoffi1760 VIAF ID: 45178484 LOC ID: nr99038556	B/BAP: 1720-10-08 DIED: 1760-03-28
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Irish-born actress, daughter of a brick-layer, she was celebrated for the Shakespearian roles she performed in London.
REFERENCES TO Margaret Woffington [Peg]: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1818 Found 1: ¶ 23 Lady Morgan to an anonymous correspondent, 1837 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 9 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 IX Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter XVII Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter XXVI