Note 175 — A BOOK FOR A RAINY DAY
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Miss Pope lived in Great Queen Street for forty years. Among her friends she was known as Mrs. Candour, from her playing that character, and from her habit of taking the part of any person spoken against in company. “I never heard her speak ill of any human being.… I have sometimes been even exasperated by her benevolence,” says James Smith, who writes delightfully about her in his Memoirs. Churchill sang her praises—
“See lively Pope advance in jig and trip, Corinna, Cherry, Honeycombe, and Snip.”
The actress did not die in Great Queen Street, but at 17 Michael’s Place, Brompton, July 30, 1818.