Anna Ross

Anna Ross Brunton (born 1773), was an actress and dramatist and part of an extended family of actors.

Anna Ross Brunton
Born
Anna Ross

1773

Life

Born Anna Ross in 1773 to the actor William Ross and his wife, later Mrs Brown, she was sister to Frances Mary Ross and half sister of John Mills Brown. The whole family were actors and connected to the British and American dramatic community. She married John Brunton on 6 September 1792 and they had at least four children. Two of their daughters were actors. One son joined the British Navy. Brunton wrote The Cottagers when she was fifteen. The comic opera was published in 1788 and performed first in Dublin in 1789. The piece was never performed on staged in Britain but did receive positive reviews and has been included in studies of eighteenth century dramatic writing. While she did act in London at Covent Garden, mostly she performed in Norwich and Brighton. She was still active beyond 1809. She is credited in handbills of the Georgian theatre (now the Angles Theatre), Wisbech as Rosabelle in Foundling of the Forest on 27 April, 1810 and other performances until her benefit night of 25th May, a Miss Brunton is also on the bills . This theatre on the Lincoln Circuit was run by a relative Thomas Shaftoe Robertson. These handbill are some of hundreds in the Wisbech & Fenland Museum collection. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Further reading
  • Neil R Wright (2016). Treading the Boards. Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology.


References and sources
  1. Ritchie, L. (2017). Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England: Social Harmony in Literature and Performance. Taylor & Francis. p. 267. ISBN 978-1-351-53661-5. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  2. Highfill, P.H.; Burnim, K.A.; Langhans, E.A. (1973). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-8093-0518-6. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  3. Watkins, J.; Shoberl, F. (1816). A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland: Comparising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives; and a Chronological Register of Their Publications, with the Number of Editions Printed; Including Notices of Some Foreign Writers Whose Works Have Been Occasionally Published in England. Colburn. p. 43. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  4. Greene, J.C. (2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances. Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820. Lehigh University Press. p. 2544. ISBN 978-1-61146-115-2. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  5. The Thespian Dictionary: Or, Dramatic Biography of the Present Age; Containing Sketches of the Lives, Lists of the Productions ... of All the Principal Dramatists, Composers, Commentators, Managers, Actors, and Actresses of the United Kingdom ... Forming a Complete Modern History of the English Stage. J. Cundee. 1805. p. 89. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  6. Library, Folger Shakespeare. "Louisa". Folger Shakespeare Library (in Afrikaans). Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  7. Ross, A. (1788). The Cottagers: A Comic Opera. In Two Acts. By Miss A. Ross, (aged Fifteen Years) ... author; and sold. p. 1. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  8. Baker, D.E.; Reed, I.; Jones, S.; Gosnell, S.; Payne, T.; Barker, J.; Miller, W.; Evans, R.H.; Harding, J.; Faulder, J. (1812). Names of Dramas: A-L. Biographia Dramatica; Or, A Companion to the Playhouse:: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers, from the Commencement of Our Theatrical Exhibitions; Among Whom are Some of the Most Celebrated Actors: Also an Alphabetical Account, and Chronological Lists, of Their Works, the Dates when Printed, and Observations on Their Merits: Together with an Introductory View of the Rise and Progress of the British Stage. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, T. Payne, G. and W. Nicol, Nichols and Son, Scatcherd and Letterman, J. Barker, W. Miller, R. H. Evans, J. Harding, J. Faulder, and Gale and Curtis. p. 131. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  9. Joncus, Berta (2009). "Women's Song in Georgian England". Early Music. 37 (3): 479–481. doi:10.1093/em/cap046. JSTOR 40390795.
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