page_title: Charlotte Mardyn
section_title: Success at Drury Lane
hierarchical_section_title: Charlotte Mardyn / Success at Drury Lane
caption_attribution_description: English: Mrs Mardyn (1789-after 1844) as Amelia in Lovers Vows (1816) by George Cruikshank (1792-1878)
context_page_description: Charlotte Mardyn was an English actress of Irish descent of the early 19th-century who was rumoured to have been the mistress of Lord Byron.
context_section_description: Mardyn made her début at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1816 as Amelia Wildenhaim in Lovers' Vows and in which she made a great success. Next she was Albina Mandeville in Reynold's The Will before going on to play Miss Peggy in Garrick's The Country Girl and Miss Hoyden in A Trip to Scarborough. At this time her estranged husband reappeared on the scene demanding her salary so she refused to go on stage. Eventually she agreed to pay him £2 a week to be rid of him and on the condition that he did not come within 100 miles of her. However, her husband's brother later sent her a letter stating that her husband had died and requesting money to cover the funeral costs. Having sent the money a week later she found her supposedly dead husband drunkenly staggering towards her home with the intention of causing trouble. Mardyn went on to appear in Tamerlane, The Quaker, Revenge and Twenty Per Cent (1815). She was Zuleika opposite Edmund Kean in The Bride of Abydos (1818) adapted from Byron's poem of the same name and played Sylvia in Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer (1819).
caption: Mrs. Mardyn as Amelia in Lovers' Vows (1816) - George Cruikshank
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