As an old lady her most celebrated personifications were the Nurse in _Romeo and Juliet_, at which, in later times, she was hardly surpassed by Mrs. Stirling. The writer of the memoir in the _Georgian Æra_ says of her: "It has not been inaptly said of her, that in the vulgar loquacity of the would-be youthful Mrs. Hardcastle--the ugliness of the antiquated virgin, Miss Durable--the imbecility of four score in Mrs. Nicely--the sturdy brutality of Mrs. Brulgruddery--the warm-hearted cottager in _Lovers' Vows_--the attempted elegances of Mrs. Dowlas--the fiery humoured Dame Quickly--and the obtuse intellect of Deborah, she overcame all rivalry." In the edition of the _Authentic Memoirs of the Green Room_ for 1806 it is said, after a mention of Mr. Davenport: "Wife to the above, and of primary utility in a theatre as the representative of low, vulgar, and antiquated characters. In this line she has not her superior on the London stage. Her Mrs. Thorne in the _Birthday_, Lady Duberly in the _Heir at Law_, Dame Ashfield in _Speed the Plough_, Widow Warren in _The Road to Ruin_, Widow Cheshire in the _Agreeable Surprise_, Mrs. Pickle in the _Spoiled Child_, with a long and diversified list of parts of a similar description, deservedly rated high in the scale of histrionic excellence--and what greatly enhances her value, she is not less to be prized for the generality than for the intensive merit of her performances. Wide and extensive as is the range of parts which she sustains, there is not a single character in the whole list in which she does not acquit herself with distinguished talent and ability." This bright and merry actress was run over by a dray on July 20th, 1841, and died in S. Bartholomew's Hospital on May 8th, 1843, after a lingering illness, at the age of eighty-four. FOOTNOTE: [28] _The Old Playgoer_, 1854, pp. 82-4. THE ROYAL FAMILY OF PRUSSIA "Over against Mousehole, across the great bay of Penzance, is Cudden Point, jutting out into the sea, forming one horn of a promontory of which the Enys forms the other, looking in the opposite direction. Between these two lie three little coves, that of the Pixies, too exposed and rocky for a harbour, but with its sides riddled with caves.