Record ID:
50475377 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • Hull, England
Death:
  • Oxford, England
Occupations:
  • actor
Used for:
  • Ternan, Fanny, 1802-1873
  • Jarman, Frances Eleanor, 1802-1873
  • Ternan, Frances Eleanor, 1802-1873
  • Jarman, Miss
  • Ternan (Thomas), Mrs
Notes:
  • DNB 2004-13 Jarman [married name Ternan], Frances Eleanor [Fanny] (1802–1873), actress, was born in Hull on 8 February 1802...while still a child performed with both Sarah Siddons and Dorothy Jordan... In 1814 her mother joined the Bath theatre company, and here Fanny worked throughout her childhood years, moved on to principal parts, and established herself as a favourite, appearing mainly in Shakespeare—she played Juliet to her mother's Nurse—and adaptations of Scott...In 1827 Fanny Jarman appeared at Covent Garden as Juliet to the Romeo of Charles Kemble and as Ophelia to his Hamlet...When she was replaced at Covent Garden by Fanny Kemble in 1829, she moved to Scotland, where, in 1831, she met Thomas Lawless Ternan (1790–1846) and performed with him in Comus...he and Fanny Jarman were married, on 21 September 1834...Her last years were spent in Oxford, at The Lawn, St Giles's Road East, the comfortable home of her daughter Maria; she died of acute bronchitis on 30 October 1873.
  • Tomalin, C. The invisible woman, 1991 ..."Nelly was born to a mother...who was still better known to her public as Miss Fanny Jarman than Mrs Frances Ternan...
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)892333
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda