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Fictional character in the play "The School for Scandal," a comedy of manners, written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and first produced in London in 1777. Frances "Fanny" Seward recalls in her 1858-1859 diary the part being played by James Edward Murdoch in a production held in Washington, D.C., in 1859.

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Fictional character in the play "The School for Scandal," a comedy of manners, written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and first produced in London in 1777. Frances "Fanny" Seward recalls in her 1858-1859 diary the part being played by James Edward Murdoch in a production held in Washington, D.C., in 1859.

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