"It is true, that the Want of Education, which her Mother's Poverty prevented her from bestowing, in a great Measure depressed those Seeds of Genius which were sown in her; yet, as the Spirit of a SHAKESPEAR would, under the most mountainous Oppression, have breathed forth some of its inextinguishable Fires, so did the native Genius of PEGGY WOFFINGTON display itself in her minutest Actions, and manifest a Brilliancy which all the studiest Efforts of laborious Industry might in vain attempt."
Memoirs of the Celebrated Mrs. Woffington
<u>Memoirs of the Celebrated Mrs. Woffington, Interspersed With Several Theatrical Anecdotes; the Amours of Many Persons of the First Rank</u>, 2nd edition (London: J. Swan, 1760).