Mary Jane Seaman, married name Mrs. Chippendale (1837?, Salisbury

Salisbury

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 – 26 May 1888, Camberwell

Camberwell

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) was an English actress.

Mary Jane Seaman was an actress who played in the provinces before playing Mrs Wellington de Boots in Joseph Stirling Coyne

Joseph Stirling Coyne

Joseph Stirling Coyne was a humorist and satirist in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. One of the most prolific British playwrights of the mid-nineteenth century, he wrote more than sixty plays; his twenty-seven farces are surpassed in number only by John Maddison Morton's...

's comedy Everybody's Friend at the Theatre Royal, Manchester in October 1859. Under the name Miss Snowdon she made her first London appearance playing Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals

The Rivals

The Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a comedy of manners in five acts. It was first performed on 17 January 1775.- Production :...

at the Haymarket Theatre

Haymarket Theatre

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 in 1863. In 1866 she married her fellow Haymarket actor William Henry Chippendale

William Henry Chippendale

William Henry Chippendale was an English actor, known in particular for his portrayal of old men. Following his acting debut in Scotland in 1819, he performed in Scottish theatres until he moved to New York on the invitation of theatre manager Steven Price in 1836...

. She was at the Court Theatre

Court Theatre

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 in 1875, and at the Lyceum Theatre

Lyceum Theatre

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 in 1878. She took a company to Australia

Australia

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, on her return succeeded Mrs Stirling

Mary Anne Stirling

Mary Anne Stirling was an English actress-Biography:Stirling was born in London, the daughter of a Captain Kehl. After some experience at outlying theatres, she appeared in London in 1836...

 as Martha in Faust

Goethe's Faust

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at the Lyceum, and accompanied Henry Irving

Henry Irving

Sir Henry Irving , born John Henry Brodribb, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as...

 to the United States.

She died on 26 May 1888 at Peckham Road, Camberwell, and was buried in Finchley cemetery. Attractive and buxom, she won acceptance as Dowager Lady Duberly in George Colman

George Colman the Younger

George Colman , known as "the Younger", English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was the son of George Colman "the Elder".-Life:...

's The Heir-at-Law, Mrs Candour in Sheridan's The School for Scandal

The School for Scandal

The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on May 8, 1777.The prologue, written by David Garrick, commends the play, its subject, and its author to the audience...

, and Mrs Hardcastle in Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, son of an Anglo-Irish vicar, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a great favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in Britain and the United States. It is one of the few plays from the 18th...

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External links

• Mary Jane Seaman, Mrs. W. H. Chippendale (1837?-1888) at picturehistory.com