Maria Ann Campion

Maria Ann Campion (1777 - 18 June 1803) was a popular Irish actress and the second wife of the acritic Alexander Pope.

She made her first appearance in Dublin, as Monimia, in The Orphan, 17 February 1790, but experienced such severe stage fright that she was unable to go on.

[1] She first appeared in London, in the same character, at Covent-Garden Theatre, on 13 October 1797, and married an actor named Alexander Pope on 24 January 1798.

In June 1801, Campion and her husband were discharged from Covent Garden but appeared at Drury Lane in January 1802.

She was interred in Westminster Abbey on 25 June alongside Pope's first wife Elizabeth Younge.