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| | John Culme's Footlight Notes - Celebrity of the Week: Margaret Leighton (c.1852-1908), Welsh born actress - Week ending ... |
 | | Miss Leighton, on the other hand, should have been born a quarter of a century before she was, when Sheridan Knowles [1784-1862] was accepted as a substitute for Shakespeare, and poets like Dean Milman and Westland Marston had a hearing on the stage. |
 | | Miss Leighton was called before the curtain at the conclusion of every act and loudly cheered." (Daily News, [London] March 1874.) Subsequently at the same theatre she played various Shakespearian parts, In October 1874 she played Romeo at the Prince’s Theatre, Manchester, in Mr. |
 | | Margaret Alcott, 60 years of age, who had resided for some time at Powis-square, Bayswater [London], was found shot in a first-class compartment of a train on the Metropolitan Railway late on Tuesday night [3 March 1908]. |
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