Elizabeth Worge née Collier et al. in Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London - 21 April, 1747
from Correspondence of Mr John Collier (deceased) and His Family, 1716-1780, pages 363–364:
Letter from Mary Collier to her mother, Mary Collier, 23rd April 1747
Tuesday my uncle carried us to see ye Beggars Opera, There was not a very full House, but ye Play was most Charmingly Perform’d, Mrs Cibber was Polly, & Beard Macheath, & all ye other Caracters [sic] by ye best Hands. I Can’t say 'twas so good a Play for my Sister Worge to see as some others might have been, as it was ye first she ever saw, There being so little variety of Scenes & Cloaths, Though she was highly delighted with that, & seems to be very happy.
Charles Lane Sayer (ed.), Correspondence of Mr John Collier (deceased) and His Family, 1716-1780, volume 1 (London, 1907), p. 363–364. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1689604313726 accessed: 12 December, 2024
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Date/Time | 21 April, 1747 |
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Mary Collier and Elizabeth Worge were half-sisters. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Collier (1685-1760; lawyer, town clerk and five times Mayor of Hastings, East Sussex) by his first wife, Elizabeth Elphick (d. 1714). Mary was a daughter by his second marriage to Mary Cranston (1696-1768).