FAUCIT, HELENA SAVILLE (1817-1898)

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FAUCIT, HELENA SAVILLE (1817-1898) , English actress, the daughter of John Saville

Faucit

FAUCIT, HELENA SAVILLE (1817-1898)

, an actor, was born in London. Her first London

appearance

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

was made on the 5th of January 1836 at Covent

Garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

as Julia in The Hunchback. Her successin this was so definitely confirmed by her subsequent acting of Juliet, Lady Teazle, Beatrice, Imogen and Hermione, that within eighteen months she was engaged by Macready as leading lady at Covent

Garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

. There, besides appearing in several Shakespearian characters, she created the heroine's part in Lytton's Duchess de la Valliere (1836), Lady of Lyons (1838), Richelieu (1839), The Sea Captain (1839), Money (184o), and Browning's Strafford (1837). After a visit to Paris and a short season at the Haymarket, she joined the Drury

Lane

company under Macready early in 1842. There she played Lady Macbeth, Constance in King John, Desdemona and Imogen, and took part in the first production of Westland Marston's Patrician's Daughter (1842) and Browning's Blot on the Scutcheon (1843). Among her successful tours was included a visit to Paris in 1844-1845, where she acted with Macready in several Shakespearian plays. In 1851 she was married to Mr (afterwards Sir)

Theodore

Martin, but still acted occasionally for charity. One of her last appearances was is Beatrice, on the opening of the Shakespeare Memorial at

Stratford

STRATFORD
STRATFORD, JOHN DE (d. 1348)

-on-Avon on the 23rd of April 1879. In 1881 there appeared in Blackwood's Magazine the first of her Letters on some of Shakespeare's Heroines, which were published in book form as On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters (1885). Lady Martin died at her

home

near Llangollen in Wales on the 31st of October 1898. There is a tablet to her in the Shakespeare Memorial with a portrait figure, and the

marble

MARBLE (from Lat. marmor, Gr. pApµapos, shining stone)

pulpit in the Shakespeare churchwith her portrait as Saint Helenawas given in her memory by her husband.
See Sir

Theodore

Martin's

Helena

HELENA
HELENA, ST (c. 247-c. 327)

Faucit

FAUCIT, HELENA SAVILLE (1817-1898)

(1900).

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