Background
Younger informed Mistress Saunders, a well-known actress who had for some years quitted the stage, that her father and mother, James and Margaret Younger, were born in Scotland.
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Margaret Bicknell
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Bicknell"s first known appearance was at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, located in London, England, on 20 August 1702. On 7 November 1706 we hear of Mistress Bicknell playing, at the Haymarket Theatre, "Edging, a Chambermaid," in "The Careless Husband" of Cibber, her associates including Wilks, Cibber, Mistress
Oldfield, and Mistress
Barry. Subsequent years saw her appear as Mission Prue in Congreve"s "Love for Love," Mission Hoyden in the "Relapse" of Vanbrugh, Melantha in "Marriage à la Mode," and other characters of which sauciness and coquetry are the chief features. Her name appears to a petition signed by Barton Booth and other actors of Drury Lane Theatre, presented apparently about 1710 to Queen Anne, complaming of the restrictions upon the performances of the petitioners imposed by the lord chamberlain.
She remained at Druiy Lane from 1708 to 1721, on 14 February of which year she "created" the character of Lady Wrangle in Cibber"s comedy, the "Refusal." Her last recorded appearance was on 2 April 1723. The "Daily Journal" of 25 May following announces her death from consumption.
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Scottish