Mary Powell (died 1723) was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century.

Contents

• Selected roles
• References
• Bibliography

She was the wife of George Powell, and was generally billed as Mrs Powell. She was a long-standing member of the Drury Lane company. Her first recorded appearance there is in 1695, although she may have joined as early as 1686. ^[1] She remained at Drury Lane until 1709. ^[2]

Selected roles

• Eudora in Neglected Virtue by Charles Hopkins (1696)
• Lady Blunder in The Younger Brother by Aphra Behn (1696)
• Mrs Vernish in The Sham Lawyer by James Drake (1697)
• Lady Manlove in Woman's Wit by Colley Cibber (1697)
• Bulfinch in Love and a Bottle by George Farquhar (1698)
• Anniky in The Campaigners by Thomas D'Urfey (1698)
• Lady Darling in The Constant Couple by George Farquhar (1701)
• Madame de Bourboun in The Unhappy Penitent by Catharine Trotter (1701)
• Donna Therasa in All for the Better by Francis Manning (1702)
• Mrs Goodfellow in Tunbridge Walks by Thomas Baker (1703)
• Mrs Rhenish in Vice Reclaimed by Richard Wilkinson (1703)

References

Bibliography

• Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Pennell to Provost. SIU Press, 1987.
• Hughes, Derek. Eighteenth-century Women Playwrights: Mary Pix and Catherine Trotter. Pickering & Chatto, 2001.

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