Lavinia Fenton As Polly

Laviuia Fenton, -ho had undertaJsen the charaot r i L Kuly in the "Beg Opera" for the i .-;; f 15 shillings i-, r v,c( k, stiddenly found herself the most celebrated persou in Lcaaou. Her portraits were sold evervwh re, her opera costames copied by fashionable ladies. Wh i she went nightly to and froru the theater, a 1 dygaard of stroug frieuds haci to t her, lest the fair Aarasi i shoald be ca off by one my imporrftnai mirers, Lavinia'smu with ruu (f the ■ ii r.i - aftei whioü she rctired froin the stag - mi iot so the good fcïtani ic.hu v her. The Duke c f Boltoii yrus - ïated by her charnw as the feaácy P Jy that he made ber hisduci ess af ter t;.ie deáth of his wife, froin Vvh.oni he had, loug beeu separated, whercby Laviuia becaiiiQ the first of the actresses connected by tnarriage with English nobility. -