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Margaret ("Peg") Woffington as the Female Volunteer

  • Margaret ("Peg") Woffington as the Female Volunteer
    Image | 1746 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, in officer's uniform. With title: "The Female Volunteer: or, an Attempt to make our Men Stand. An Epilogue intended to be spoken by Mrs. Woffington in the habit of a volunteer, upon reading the Gazette containing an account of the late action at Falkirk." With copy of the epilogue below. Facsimile of the rare original.