Lovell was born in London on 15 July 1803 to Willoughby Lacy of Drury Lane. She was a working actor by 1818 when she successfully appeared in Belfast. By 1820 she was appearing in Scotland with
Edward Kean and
Charles Young. In 1822 she appeared at Covent Garden with such success that in time she was given a three-year contract. By 1826 she had appeared in
Love's Victory by
Lady Mary Wroth and a
lithograph recorded her role. She retired from acting and married in 1830
George William Lovell, a well-known dramatist, author of
The Provost of Bruges, ''
The Wife's Secret, Love's Sacrifice, Look Before You Leap, and The Trial of Love''. Her father died in 1831. from
Der Sohn der Wildnis ("The Son of the Wilderness"), a German-language play by Eligius Franz Joseph,
Freiherr von Munch-Bellinghausen, an Austrian who wrote as
Friedrich Halm, and has been referred to as "Bellinghausen". The leading role of Parthenia was taken by
Charlotte Vandenhoff when it was first performed at
Drury Lane in 1851. Four years later she published another play, titled
The Beginning and the End in four acts. It was performed at the
Haymarket in 1855. Lovell died in
Hampstead on 2 April 1877. == References ==