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| − | [[Fanny Raynor]] (fl 1860s-1870s) was a British actress.
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| − | Married to and business partner of Bennee, she was either billed as "Miss Fanny Raynor", or "[[Mrs Bennee]]"
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| − | Having broken rather acrimoniously with [[Sefton Parry]], the Bennees now took off on their own with a scratch company, undertaking a 15 month tour of the Eastern Cape and the Orange Free State during the course of 1868-69, performing with the aid of local amateurs wherever they appeared. They ended back in Cape Town, where they presented a farewell benefit in Cape Town under the auspices of the Governor and the Freemasons in on 31 May, 1869. The bill consisted of ''[[Hamlet]]'' (Shakespeare), ''[[Personation or Fairly Taken In]]'' (Dieulafoy/Decamp) and ''[[How to Win a Widow]]'' (Allingham?).
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| − | They then left the Cape for the colonies in the East, for example visiting India and Australia . There they once more performed leading roles such as that of "Claude Melnotte" and "Pauline" in ''[[The Lady of Lyons]]'' (Bulwer-Lytton), "Hamlet" and "Ophelia" in ''[[Hamlet]]'' (Shakespeare) and "Petruchio" and "Katherine" in ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' (Shakespeare) - none of these to great success, at least not in Melbourne it would appear.
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| − | As an actress she never seemed quite to live up to the publicity dispersed by the company. In Australia for example, the critic of ''The Advocate'' (10 August, 1872) said: "Miss Jaynor lacks animation, not
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| − | possessing, as it seemed to us, the nervous character which is indispensable to a lady undertaking leading parts", a sentiment echoeing that of Boonzaier in Cape Town, South Africa.
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| − | ==Sources==
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| − | "Public Amusements", ''The Advocate'', Melbourne, Victoria: 10 Aug 1872 (Page 15), Trove[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170157275]
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