| 词条 | Mrs. Edward Knight |
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Mrs. Edward Knight, nee Mary Ann Povey (26 July 1804-1861) was an English-American singer and actress in comic opera. Knight was born in Birmingham, England.[1] She was described as "especially good in comic opera", and as time went on she portrayed an increasing range of characters and became affiliated with the Park Theatre.[2] She studied music under a Mr. T. Cooke and made her stage debut as a singer in 1817.[3] When she arrived in the United States in the 1820s, she "stood at the very summit of popular regard, and her songs were certainly given with a spirit and expressiveness at that time entirely unrivalled... As an actress in comic opera, she was superior to any contemporary star; and in later life, in a broader range of chambermaids, country girls and elderly spinsters, she acquired a deservedly high repute."[3] Personal lifePovey married Knight in 1826 at St Pancras New Church in London.[4] She lost her only child, a girl of 17, in 1845. Four years later, she returned to England after becoming partially blind as a result of a disease caused by excessive weeping.[2] DeathKnight died in October 1861 at Brompton, England.[3] References1. ^{{cite book |last1=Ireland |first1=Joseph Norton |title=Records of the New York Stage: From 1750 to 1860 |date=1866 |publisher=T. H. Morrell |page=511 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oj87AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA511&dq=%22Mary+Ann+Povey%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOvdb295_eAhULx58KHRLlAC4Q6AEIWDAI#v=onepage&q=%22Mary%20Ann%20Povey%22&f=false |accessdate=24 October 2018 |language=en}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Knight, Edward, Mrs}}{{US-theat-actor-stub}}2. ^1 {{cite book |last1=Phelps |first1=Henry Pitt |title=Players of a Century: A Record of the Albany Stage. Including Notices of Prominent Actors who Have Appeared in America |date=1880 |publisher=J. McDonough |page=160 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LHdKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA160&dq=%22Mary+Ann+Povey%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOvdb295_eAhULx58KHRLlAC4Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=%22Mary%20Ann%20Povey%22&f=false |accessdate=24 October 2018 |language=en}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite book|author=Joseph Norton Ireland|title=Records of the New York Stage: From 1750 to 1860|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oqENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA511|year=1866|publisher=T. H. Morrell|pages=511–12}} 4. ^{{cite news |title=Marriages |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24802809/the_hull_packet_and_east_riding_times/ |work=The Hull Packet and East Riding Times |date=October 3, 1826 |location=England, Hull, East Yorkshire |page=3|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = October 24, 2018}} {{Open access}} 4 : 1804 births|1861 deaths|19th-century American actresses|English emigrants to the United States |
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