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Gwyn, Nell
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Actress
An Unfortunate Upbringing.
When she was just a child, Eleanor Gwyn lost her father, who likely died in a debtor's prison. The future great actress of the Restoration stage therefore grew up under the care of her mother, who ran a house of prostitution near Covent Garden, then in the western end of the city of London. In her childhood years she was a barmaid in her mother's establishment before becoming a fruit seller at the nearby Drury Lane Theater. She came to the attention of the theater's major actor, Charles Hart, and although only fifteen at the time she became his lover. Hart saw to it that she was given roles in productions and she continued in the company until when she became pregnant by the king. She returned to the theater for one production after the birth, but then soon retired to devote herself to her love, King Charles II. In the years that she had performed at the Drury Lane Theater, Gwyn premiered a number of roles in plays by John Dryde
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- Nell Gwyn (born Feb. 2, , London, Eng.—died Nov. 14, , London) was an English actress and mistress of Charles II, whose frank recklessness, generosity, invariable good temper, ready wit, infectious high spirits, and amazing indiscretions appealed irresistibly to a generation that welcomed in her the living antithesis of Puritanism.
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| Eleanor Gwyn (2 February 1650 – 14 November 1687; also spelled Gwynn, Gwynne) was an English stage actress and celebrity figure of the Restoration period. | |
| Biographies of Nell Gwyn include: Nell Gwynn, by Jessica Swale; Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King, by Charles Beauclerk; Nell Gwynn (Life of a Harlot), by Jenny Stone; House of Nell Gwynn: Fortunes of the Beauclerk Family, , by Peter Beauclerk Dewar and Donald Adamson. | |
| The story of her exceptional rise from a poor, abusive childhood to the wealth and connections that came with being the lover of one history's most louche. |
Great Britons: Nell Gwyn – The Actress Who Charmed a King ...
- Nell Gwyn was an English actress and mistress of Charles II, whose frank recklessness, generosity, invariable good temper, ready wit, infectious high spirits, and amazing indiscretions appealed irresistibly to a generation that welcomed in her the living antithesis of Puritanism.
Nell Gwyn | English Actress & Royal Mistress | Britannica
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- Biographies of Nell Gwyn include: Nell Gwynn, by Jessica Swale; Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King, by Charles Beauclerk; Nell Gwynn (Life of a Harlot), by Jenny Stone; House of Nell Gwynn: Fortunes of the Beauclerk Family, , by Peter Beauclerk Dewar and Donald Adamson.
Nell Gwyn - Mistress of King Charles II - Historic UK
- Nell Gwyn was one of the first English female actors who emerged in Restoration London after King Charles II made the radical decree that female roles must be played by women rather than men.