Jane Rogers (actress, died 1739)

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Jane Rogers (died 1739) was a British stage actress.

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She was the illegitimate daughter of the actor Robert Wilks and Jane Rogers an actress. [1] To distinguish her from her mother she was sometimes known as Jane Rogers the Younger.

In 1717 she married Christopher Bullock, an actor-manager at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre. [2] He died in 1722 from consumption, after they had three children together. She continued to be a popular actress at Lincoln's Inn, and in 1732 moved with the rest of the company to the new Covent Garden Theatre. In 1736 as her career drew to a close she received a benefit performance at Covent Garden, and the following year another benefit was held at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. She died in Ireland two years later and was buried at Glasnevin. [3]

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  1. Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.400
  2. Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.401
  3. Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.403

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