found: Fitzball, E. The deserted mile, or, The soldier's widow, 18--?:cast (Miss Kelly)
found: DNB, 1949-50(Kelly, Frances Maria, 1790-1882)
found: The Oxford comp. to the theat., 1983(Kelly, Fanny [Frances] Maria, 1790-1882; English actress and singer)
found: M'Dermot, Martin. A philosophical inquiry into the source of the pleasures derived from tragic representations, 1824:dedication, page iii (Miss F.H. Kelly [i.e., F.M. Kelly?]; tragic representations, that branch of the drama in which you so eminently excel) page 380 (Miss Kelly's Constance, in the Vespers of Palermo)
found: Bush-Bailey, Gilli. Performing herself, 2011:title page (Fanny Kelly's) page 1 (Frances Maria (Fanny) Kelly; born October 1790) page 2 (on reproduction of 1833 playbill: Miss Kelly)
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 29 January 2019(Kelly, Frances Maria (Fanny) (1790-1882); Fanny Kelly; actress and singer; born at Brighton 15 October or 15 December 1790; pupil of her uncle Michael Kelly, actor and composer, for 9 years; was then enrolled with the singer Anna Maria Crouch; made stage début at the age of 7 at Drury Lane, in uncle's opera Bluebeard (16 January 1798); enrolled in Drury Lane company as a chorister; 1800 to 1806, played at Drury Lane and the Italian Opera, where learned Italian, later also French and Latin; 1807, Queen Street Theatre, Glasgow; later toured nearly all the chief provincial theatres; 1808, George Colman engaged her for the Haymarket; 1809, at the Lyceum; therafter at Drury Lane under Samuel Arnold; 1812, played at the newly constructed Drury Lane Theatre; with occasional appearances elsewhere, remained at Drury Lane through farewell performance 8 June 1835; friend of Charles and Mary Lamb; set up a dramatic school for training young women; opened a theatre at the back of her house (73 Dean Street, Soho), first called Miss Kelly's Theatre and then the Royalty; opened on 24 May 1840 but soon closed; reopened, used by the first amateur company in United Kingdom (the Amateurs, of which Dickens was a leading light) to produce Everyman; theatre seized by landlord; continued to give Shakespearian readings and to receive a few pupils when moved to 30 Moscow Road, Bayswater; later moved to Feltham, Middlesex; died at Feltham 6 December 1882; buried at Brompton cemetery)
found: Wikipedia, 30 January 2019(Frances Maria Kelly (15 October 1790, Brighton - 1882), also known as Fanny; English actress and singer; she is most well known for her acting at the Drury Lane Theatre and her opening of the Royalty Theatre and Dramatic School, known as Miss Kelly's Theatre and Dramatic School, in 1840, for the training of young women; in 1833, Kelly managed the Royal Strand Theatre, where she operated a dramatic school, the earliest record of a drama school in England)
