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_ -- After dinner, with my wife, to the King's house to see _The Maiden Queene_, a new play of Dryden's mightily commended for the regularity of it, and the strain and wit; and, the truth is, there is a comical part done by Nell Gwynne, which is Florimell, that I never can hope ever to see the like done again, by man or woman.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885
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And in later news, Publishers Weekly has just chimed in about Nell Gwynne’s: This steampunk novella, set in 1844 London, follows the exploits of the harlots of the exclusive establishment known as Nell Gwynne’s, where they gather intelligence for the shadowy Gentlemen’s Speculative Society, a predecessor to the Company featured in several of Baker’s novels….
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Several of their horses were left behind bogged, one mare in particular, "Nell Gwynne," being too weak to travel.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880
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The longest story is the late Kage Baker's "The Women of Nell Gwynne's," and it's steampunk, set in an imaginary Victorian England.
The Future of Science Fiction Tom Shippey 2011
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And next morning, the talk was all about Nell Gwynne, not the other woman with boobs and an Afro.
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There appeared to be four characters, King Charles the Second, Nell Gwynne, and two others.
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In our version, we just had Charles the Second, Nell Gwynne, a couple of Court Gentlemen … and the two Puritans, played by me and a sixth-former called Ken Livesey.
My first appearance on stage, age 11 (Part 2) « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010
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There appeared to be four characters, King Charles the Second, Nell Gwynne, and two others.
My first appearance on stage, aged 11… « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010
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In fact, two of them had no lines at all, including the boy who was playing Nell Gwynne, the mistress of King Charles the Second, in the same scene as me.
My first appearance on stage, age 11 (Part 2) « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010
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And next morning, the talk was all about Nell Gwynne, not the other woman with boobs and an Afro.
My first appearance on stage, age 11 (Part 2) « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010
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