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ADELAIDE, an Italian 1822. At a very early age she played actress; born in Cividale, Italy, Jan. 29, in comedy, but afterward appeared in tragedy. She married the Marquis Capranica del Grillo in 1846, and afterward played in all the chief European capitals and in the United States. She took her farewell of the English stage in Manchester, Nov. 8, 1873. Among her chief characters were Medea, Francesca da Rimini, Marie Antoinette, Mary Stuart, and Lady Macbeth. In 1884 she visited the United States for the last time. She died Oct. 9, 1906.
RITA (MRS. W. DESMOND HUMPHREYS), a British novelist. She was born at Gollanfield, Scotland, educated at Sydney, N. S. W., and was twice married. She went to Australia as a child with her parents, later returned to Britain and has traveled much. She commenced to write at a very early age, her works including: "Dame Durden," "Darby and Joan," "Corinna," "My Lord Conceit," "Asenath of the Ford," "Two Bad Blue Eyes," "Gretchen," "A Husband of No Importance," "A Gender in Satin," "Sheba," "Joan and Mrs.
Carr," "The Ending of My Day," "Faustine," "A Woman in It," "Vignettes," "Peg the Rake," "Kitty the Rag," " "Good Mrs. Hypocrite," "The Sinner," "An Old Rogue's Tragedy," "A Woman of Samaria," "Vanity," "The Sin of Jasper Standish," "Prince Charming," "A Jilt's Journal," "Souls," "The Rubbish Heap," "The Philanthropic Burglar."