Mrs Goodall or Charlotte Goodall or Charlotte Stanton (1766 – July 1830) was a

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actress known for her comedy roles at Drury Lane. She married Thomas Goodall and they were involved in a noted legal case.

Life

Charlotte Stanton (Goodall) was born in 1766. Her father ran an acting company and that is where she learnt her profession. Her father had bought property in Staffordshire on the profits from his acting company. She was discovered in Bath where she was playing Rosalind by

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. She appeared in several leading parts in Bristol and Bath before appearing again as Rosalind at

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. She made the newspapers when she argued with Kemble over whether she would appear as "Lady Anne" in

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In 1787 she married Thomas Goodall who was a merchant captain. In 1789 she was employed to do

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and she was painted by

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in her costume of Sir Harry Wildair in

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'' which was later engraved by William Satchwell Leney. In 1813 her frequently absent husband who was called an "Admiral of Hayti" took out a case for damages against his lawyer, Fletcher. Her husband said he had sent home £120,000 to his lawyer and this had been purloined by his lawyer and moreover he had taken his wife and their six children. The case went to court and although some of the figures may have been exaggerated Goodall was awarded $5,000 for his lawyer's "criminal conversation" with his wife. The case had been conducted by Sir

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for her husband and oddly a full account of the trial was published in the name of her husband which listed all the major witnesses. The 22-page document also included the love letters sent by the lawyer, Fletcher, to Charlotte.Crim. Con. or the Love-sick Lawyer!! The Trail between Mr. Goodall ... plaintiff, and Mr. Fletcher ... defendant, for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife ... The third edition
Thomas Goodall (Admiral of Hayti), John Fairburn, 1813 - 22 pages Goodall died in Somers Town in London in July 1830, shortly before the 19th.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodall, Charlotte 1766 births 1830 deaths 18th-century British actresses 19th-century British actresses British stage actresses