Crouch, Mrs. Anna Maria

CROUCH, Mrs. Anna Maria, born April 20, 1763, was the daughter of Peregrine Phillips, a solicitor. Being gifted with a remarkably sweet voice Miss Phillips was at an early age placed under the instruction of a music-master named Wafer, and some time afterwards was articled to Thomas Linley, under whose auspices she made her appearance in the winter of 1780, at Drury Lane Theatre, as Mandane in Dr. Arne's ‘Artaxerxes.’ Her success was great, and for upwards of twenty...