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		<title>Charles S. Stratton (General Tom Thumb)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlis Schweitzer]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lori Merish]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sianne Ngai]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fourth week of my year-long blogging project. See here for more details. Charles Stratton was born in January 1838 to Sherwood Stratton, a carpenter, and his wife, Cynthia, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. At birth, he weighed 9 pounds, 8 ounces (a large baby) and he continued to develop at a “normal” rate for the first &#8230; <a href="https://childperformers.ca/charles-s-stratton-general-tom-thumb/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Charles S. Stratton (General Tom Thumb)</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Louisa Lane (Mrs. John Drew)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 02:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlis Schweitzer]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Actress of All Work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clara Fisher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edwin Forrest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethel Barrymore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third week of my year-long blogging project. See here for more details. Mrs. John Drew (Louisa Lane Drew, 1820-1897) was a doyenne of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century stage, as celebrated for her lengthy stage career as for her role as matriarch of the Drew family, one of the US’s oldest &#8230; <a href="https://childperformers.ca/louisa-lane-mrs-john-drew/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Louisa Lane (Mrs. John Drew)</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Margaret Davenport</title>
		<link>https://childperformers.ca/jean-margaret-davenport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlis Schweitzer]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cross-gender performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shakespeare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Gruber Garvey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamaica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Margaret Davenport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ninetta Crummles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sharon Marcus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second week of a year-long blogging project. I&#8217;m proposing to blog on a different child actor for 52 weeks. See here for more details. Today I turn my attention towards the performer who first piqued my interest in child actors and actresses, Jean Margaret Davenport, and the scrapbooks documenting her colonial travels. &#8230; <a href="https://childperformers.ca/jean-margaret-davenport/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Jean Margaret Davenport</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Master William Henry West Betty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2015 21:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlis Schweitzer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is merely an introduction to Master Betty and his first appearance before London audiences. For a much longer treatment of his career, see Jeffrey Kahan&#8217;s excellent book cited below.  Master William Henry West Betty is arguably the first child celebrity of the modern era. I say arguably because much depends on how you &#8230; <a href="https://childperformers.ca/master-william-henry-west-betty/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Master William Henry West Betty</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Child Performers of the 19th Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlis Schweitzer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, I&#8217;ve decided to blog each week on a different c19 child performer: 52 posts for 52 weeks, with perhaps a few additional posts thrown in for fun. While some of the children on my list are well-known among historians of theatre and childhood (e.g. Master Betty, Cordelia Howard, Charles Stratton), others are relatively &#8230; <a href="https://childperformers.ca/celebrating-child-performers-of-the-19th-century/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Celebrating Child Performers of the 19th Century</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hatching a plot</title>
		<link>https://childperformers.ca/hatching-a-plot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlis Schweitzer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a recent convert to Twitter and am thoroughly enjoying meeting new scholars working in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and reading about their work. It&#8217;s inspiring to see so many archive-bound, history loving scholars out there. And after some reflection, I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;d like to try something different next year &#8211; I&#8217;m going &#8230; <a href="https://childperformers.ca/hatching-a-plot/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Hatching a plot</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>David Garrick in the mail</title>
		<link>https://childperformers.ca/david-garrick-in-the-mail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlis Schweitzer]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Garrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eBay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Staffordshire figurine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I received a large brown box with David Garrick inside &#8211; well, ok, a Staffordshire figurine depicting him in the role of Richard III. I purchased him on eBay for 10 pounds, a pretty awesome deal for such a celebrated actor. He&#8217;s obviously been around for a while, as a slightly chipped nose and &#8230; <a href="https://childperformers.ca/david-garrick-in-the-mail/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">David Garrick in the mail</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity c. 1849</title>
		<link>https://childperformers.ca/celebrity-c-1849/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlis Schweitzer]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oxford English Dictionary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading an article by Stella Tillyard on celebrity in Georgian England and she references the Oxford English Dictionary&#8217;s definition of celebrity. According to the OED, the term &#8220;celebrity&#8221; wasn&#8217;t applied to a person until 1849. But I&#8217;m fairly confident that I came across descriptions of Master Betty as a &#8220;celebrity&#8221; in some of the pamphlets I &#8230; <a href="https://childperformers.ca/celebrity-c-1849/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Celebrity c. 1849</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jean D, is this you?</title>
		<link>https://childperformers.ca/jean-d-is-this-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2014 21:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlis Schweitzer]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[eBay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Davenport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish lass]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night, in preparation for my trip to Halifax, I fell down an eBay rabbit hole and spent about an hour looking at Staffordshire figurines. I ended up bidding on a really interesting figurine of David Garrick as Richard III (the tent scene just after he awakens from his dream) because it seemed relatively inexpensive. &#8230; <a href="https://childperformers.ca/jean-d-is-this-you/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Jean D, is this you?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Halifax trip</title>
		<link>https://childperformers.ca/halifax-trip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2014 02:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlis Schweitzer]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Halifax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peggy's Cove]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some more photos from my trip to Halifax. On Thursday, Dalhousie professor Shannon Brownlee took me out for an excursion to Peggy&#8217;s Cove. What a beautiful spot! And on Friday, I had a chance to walk through Halifax&#8217;s stately Public Gardens. It was like stepping back in time &#8211; appropriate for this project. &#8230; <a href="https://childperformers.ca/halifax-trip/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Halifax trip</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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