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In her early teens, Nell Gwyn was engaged to sell oranges at the King’s Theatre. Her natural wit and complete lack of self-consciousness caught the eye of the actor Charles Hart and others, and Dryden wrote plays to exploit her talents as a comic actress.
Orange Moll hired Nell and her elder sister Rose as scantily-clad 'orange-girls', selling the small, sweet "china" oranges to the audience inside the theatre for a sixpence each. [ citation needed ] The work exposed her to the theatre and to London's higher society: this was "the King's playhouse", and King Charles II frequently attended ...
- Actress
- 14 November 1687 (aged 37), Pall Mall, London, England
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- Charles II of England
17 de may. de 2017 · How did people eat the oranges that Nell Gwynn sold at the theatre? | Fruit | The Guardian. Orange is the only fruit ... Gemma Arterton playing Nell Gwynn in Jessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn ...
6 de mar. de 2021 · Nell Gywn: the orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England. From penniless orange seller to wealthy mistress of Charles II, Nell Gwyn’s wit and charm endeared her as a darling of society and a symbol of a more fun-loving and lavish England. Hers is story of rags to riches and back again...
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4 de mar. de 2016 · In terms of what we know, records tell that Nell sold 'strong waters' to the punters in her mother's brothel, that she may have been a herring gutter or a street seller and that she sold oranges at the theatre in Drury Lane. The specific details are hard to pin down.
17 de mar. de 2017 · Eleanor 'Nell' Gwynn (or Gwyn or Gwynne) is a London heroine with a rags-to-riches story to rival both Cinderella and Eliza Doolittle. The embodiment of the bawdy Restoration era, the orange...
29 de may. de 2018 · Literature and the Arts. Theater: Biographies. Nell Gwyn. Gwyn, Nell. views 1,842,456 updated May 29 2018. Nell Gwyn. 1650–1687. Actress. An Unfortunate Upbringing. When she was just a child, Eleanor Gwyn lost her father, who likely died in a debtor's prison.