Miss Elizabeth Younge in the character of Hermione in Ambrose Philips’ The Distrest Mother, Drury Lane Theatre, 1775. Elizabeth Younge or Elizabeth Pope was an English actress who specialized in Shakespearean roles 1740-1797. Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts from Bell’s British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, 1776.

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