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Nell Gwynn
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Nell Gwynn I'm reposting this. Nell should be remembered in my blog. Nell Gwynn was said, via a horoscope, to have been born Saturday 2 February 1650, at six AM. Just how this precision was achieved is not known. Few births were accurately recorded in the seventeenth century- why Nell's birth would be accorded such special attention is a mystery known only to the astrologer. Her birthplace is the subject of speculation. The name Gwynn being of the the Welsh persuasion, Hereford, near the Welsh border, claims the honor, and that she was indeed born in Pipewell Lane, renamed Gwynn Street in her honor sometime in the 1800's. She was raised in Covent Garden and adherents of the Covent Garden faction go further in specifying Coal Yard Alley as the scene of her nativity. Nell's life, happily, is less of a mystery. Her mother, Old Madame Gwynn, was born in Covent Garden and ran a bawdy house there. Old Madame Gwynn reportedly struggled with alcoholism. Nell's father, supposedly Captain Thomas Guine, was at any rate absent early in Nell's life, and she apparently passed her childhood in the bawdy house where she later claimed that she served liquor to the patrons, but had not catered to their other requirements. Nell had hooked up with a man by the time she was twelve or so, depending on which birthdate you accept, and this "Duncan" is said to have gotten her an introduction to the theater being built near their dwelling in Maypole Alley. Nell became an "orange girl", hawking fruit to the theater goers in seductive attire, and also carrying messages back and forth between the actresses and their admirers from the noblity and gentry in the audience. She soon attracted the eye of Thomas Killigrew, who operated the playhouse. Killigrew sent her to his acting school, where she would meet Charles Hart and John Lacey, both rumored to have been Nell's lovers. Nell began acting by 1664 or 1665, at fourteen or fifteen perhaps. By 1665 she was a smash hit in "The Mad Couple", a comedy, and she had found her metier. As a comic actor she was reportedly unsurpassed, by no less authority than Samuel Pepys. In one scene of "the Mad Couple" Nell rolled across the stage, revealing her petticoats to the theater goers, one of whom, in 1667, was Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, who made her his mistress, left the city with her, and gave her a stipend of a hundred pounds. Later that year Nell was back in London, however, with the Duke of Buckingham concocting a plan to her to the king. By the spring of 1668 the plan had come to fruition and Nell found herself competing with Moll Davis for the attentions of King Charles the Second. Nell and her friend, playwright Aphra Behn are said to have slipped Moll Davis a laxative one evening before Moll's assignation with Charles. Recalling Nell's career as a comic actor, it is amusing to note that she referred to King Charles the Second as Charles the Third, following her former lovers Charles Hart and Charles Sackville. Nell continued acting, but by 8 May 1670 she had her first , Charles, fathered by King Charles. Later that same year Nell found herself with a new competitor in the person of Louise de Kerouaille, a French Catholic, whom Nell promptly nicknamed Squintabella. Nell continued acting and continued dear to King Charles. About 1681 she was traveling through Oxford in her coach when the crowd, staunchly anti-catholic, became aware of her approach and became unruly. Nell stuck her head out the window of the coach and exclaimed "Good people, be calm. I am the protestant ." On another occasion she found her footman fighting with a man who had called her a and said "I AM a . Find something else to fight about." At ten PM on 14 November 1687, Nell died, most likely from the ravages of syphillis. She was thirty seven years old. Not a wealthy woman, she still found money to bequeath to the prisoners at Newgate Prison. Her Charles had been made Earl of Burford by Charles the Second. Nell Gwynn knew where she had been, and what she was, and where she was headed, and never was ashamed of it. Raise a glass to the memory of Nell, a common girl with an uncommon wit and an uncommon character. Become a member now and get a free tote bag. |
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*With a glass raised* Three cheers for Nell Gwynn... Long may the memory of her live on. A wonderfully entertaining and funny post, dear B. *hugs* Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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A very honest and admirable person. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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I enjoyed this post. I am falling behind in my reading just following a few blogs. So few of us know who we are, what we are, or where we are going. Thank you for the history lesson. I will try and be mindful of the truths in my life and where they are leading me. Thanks again kind Sir. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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A great post.  
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A great post. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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