Word: woffington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fling in his life-with Peg Woffington, a saucy and beautiful Irish actress. That done and over, he sedately married an Austrian dancer and lived as a respectable bourgeois. He did not mix well with his fellow actors, and was wretchedly sensitive to their gibes about his vanity. Garrick was indeed terribly vain-how could he help it? He had been praised enough to turn a man clear out of his mind. "More pains have been taken to spoil the fellow," said Sam Johnson, "than if he had been heir-apparent to the Emperor of India...