Adeline Billington

Adeline Billington (3 January 1826 – 23 January 1917), was an English actress and teacher.[1]

Adeline Billington
Adeline Billington
Born
Adeline Mortimer

(1826-01-03)3 January 1826
England
Died23 January 1917(1917-01-23) (aged 91)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Other namesMrs. John Billington

Biography

Adeline Mortimer was born 3 January 1826, in England.[2] She married John Billington, a fellow actor.[3][4] Billington made her London debut in Cupid and Psyche at the Adelphi Theatre.[2] She worked in that theatre for 16 years. She often worked with her husband.[5] Billington was popular with Charles Dickens for several of her performances in the theatrical performances of his works.[6] Billington was friends with Vaughan Williams as well.[7][8] Billington also worked as an acting teacher, knowns as "Mother of the stage".[9][10]

She died in London on 23 January 1917.[2]

Sources
  1. "Sixty Years an Actress". The Bendigo Independent. 13 August 1908. p. 6. Retrieved 18 October 2023 – via Trove.
  2. "Obituary". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 January 1917. p. 11. Retrieved 18 October 2023 – via Trove.
  3. "Mr. John Billington". Table Talk. Melbourne. 6 June 1890. p. 5. Retrieved 18 October 2023 – via Trove.
  4. "John Billington, Actor". Otago Witness. Vol. 21, no. 2636. 21 September 1904. p. 61. Retrieved 18 October 2023 – via Papers Past.
  5. Wearing, J. P. (5 December 2013). The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-9294-1.
  6. Dickens, Charles (14 March 2002). The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 12: 1868-1870. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-159027-6.
  7. Savage, Roger (2014). Masques, Mayings and Music-dramas: Vaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-century Stage. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84383-919-4.
  8. "Transcript of The Plimsoll Sensation podcast". National Museums Liverpool.
  9. Heim, Caroline (30 July 2015). Audience as Performer: The changing role of theatre audiences in the twenty-first century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-63354-9.
  10. "'Mother of the Stage.'". Telegraph. Brisbane. 17 April 1917. p. 3. Retrieved 18 October 2023 – via Trove.


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