Charlotte Tidswell

She may have been acting for five years when her name was first mentioned when she appeared with the company creating "The Busy Body" at Drury Lane.

She had been the mistress of Charles Howard who was a Duke of Norfolk[1] and it was conjectured that this was the reason she started at Drury Lane.

She was earning about three pounds a weeks although in time she would get an annual benefit performance and during the summer she would take other acting roles.

In the winter she might play a named Shakespearean role like the Duchess of York in Richard III or Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet.

[2] It was noted at the time that although she never played a leading part she attracted a large amount of attention from the critics.