Elizabeth Bowman

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Short description|English actress}} '''Elizabeth Bowman''' (c. 1677 – 1707) was an English stage actress of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.<ref>Caines p.149</ref> The daughter of Sir Francis Watson, 1st Baronet she was adopted by the actor manager Thomas Betterton. In 1692, she married John Bowman and began acting at Drury Lane the following year as '''Mrs Bowman'''. She was a member of the United Company until 1695 then joined Betterton's breakaway at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.

==Selected roles== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Sylvia in ''The Old Batchelor'' by William Congreve (1693) * Mrs Stockjobb in ''The Richmond Heiress'' by Thomas D'Urfey (1693) * Cecilia in ''The Married Beau'' by John Crowne (1694) * Mrs Foresight in ''Love For Love'' by William Congreve (1695) * Juliana in ''She Ventures and He Wins'' by Ariadne (1695) * Mrs Plant in ''The Lover's Luck'' by Thomas Dilke (1695) * Lucinda in ''The She-Gallants'' by George Granville (1695) * Arabella ''The City Bride'' by Joseph Harris (1696) * Selima in ''The Royal Mischief'' by Delarivier Manley (1696) * Mrs Angelica in ''The Anatomist'' by Edward Ravenscroft (1696) * Lucinda in ''The City Lady'' by Thomas Dilke (1696) * Countess de Brissac in ''The Intrigues at Versailles'' by Thomas D'Urfey (1697) * Lady Fancyfull in ''The Provoked Wife'' by John Vanbrugh (1697) * Alouisia in ''The Italian Husband'' by Edward Ravenscroft (1697) *Venutia in ''Boadicea, Queen of Britain'' by Charles Hopkins (1697) * Ophelia in ''The Pretenders'' by Thomas Dilke (1698) * Urania in ''Rinaldo and Armida'' by John Dennis (1698) * Appamia in ''The False Friend'' by Mary Pix (1699) * Mrs Clerimont in ''The Beau Defeated'' by Mary Pix (1700) * Mrs Fainall in ''The Way of the World'' by William Congreve (1700) * Cleone in ''The Ambitious Stepmother'' by Nicholas Rowe (1700) * Nerissa in ''The Jew of Venice'' by George Granville (1701) * Marina in ''The Czar of Muscovy'' by Mary Pix (1701) * Berenice in ''Antiochus the Great'' by Jane Wiseman (1701) * Lady Dolt in ''The Ladies Visiting Day'' by William Burnaby (1701) *Candace in ''Altemira'' by Roger Boyle (1701) * Damon in ''The Fickle Shepherdess'' by Anonymous (1703) * Lucinda in ''The Governour of Cyprus'' by John Oldmixon (1703) * Mrs Hartley in ''As You Find It'' by Charles Boyle (1703) * Leonora in ''The Mistake'' by John Vanbrugh (1705) * Diana in ''The Temple of Love'' by Pierre Motteux (1706) * Urganda in ''The British Enchanters'' by George Granville (1706) * Emelia in ''Adventures in Madrid'' by Mary Pix (1706) * Florinda in ''The Rover'' by Aphra Behn (1707) {{div col end}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Caines, Michael in ''The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, Volume I: The Early Plays''. Taylor & Francis, 2016. * Lanier, Henry Wysham. ''The First English Actresses: From the Initial Appearance of Women on the Stage in 1660 Till 1700''. The Players, 1930. * Van Lennep, W. ''The London Stage, 1660–1800: Volume One, 1660–1700''. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.

Category:17th-century English actresses Category:18th-century English actresses Category:1670s births Category:1707 deaths Category:Actresses from London