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appeared in Blr.ckwood f s Edinburgh ra^p-aine, of which her husband
Sir Theodore Martin, was a director. The chrracters fi^cnrseri
in tho first collection were Ophelia, Portia, Desdemona, Juliet,
Imogen, Rosalind, and Beatrice; to the fourth edition (1891) an
essay on Hermione was added, and references arc to the pagination
of this edition. 14"
In 1C83 Helen Paucit was very much a legend* Her last
London appearances, at Drury Lane in 1864, hfd reminded critics
of Mrcready's actin,,, and of the manner in which that actor, in
G.H. Lewes' phrase, "strove to introduce aa uuch familiarity of
detail aa was consistent '-.'itli ideal prescntation"l5.The accounts
of her training; an-l motho-lc jiven 'by h-?r osr;ays and :;lie biography
written by her husband, surest that sho concorn.id her::: elf from
the first with elevate , literary; pl^y?. >:ior theatrical debut
was i performance ao Juliet at the Richmond Theatre in 1833, and
she retired in 1879, v/hon clio -Irycrl Ro^rlind in "anchor^ 3r for
the oenol'it of Ch;.-rlo^ Crlvort'o d^O'.v. In the cource of her
career and for the ^ost ?- ; r': niicor ??ncready*n management, she
played -ioaalind, Beatrice, Imogen, Hermions, ^or^elia, '""ircnda,
Constance, Lady Ilacbcth and Juliet an