Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin

Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin (c. 1771–1854) was an Anglo-Irish stage actress active in Ireland and England during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin was the daughter of actor William Talbot Richards (d. 1813), who at the time of her birth in Dublin had been engaged with her mother at the Crow Street Theatre. Her mother's name and fate is unknown; when Edwin was around eight her father married twenty-one-year-old Sarah Edmonds in London.

At Crow Street Theatre, when eight years old, she appeared in Prince Arthur and other juvenile characters, including a part written specially for her by O'Keefe in his lost and forgotten farce, The Female Club. She also, for her benefit, played Priscilla Tomboy in The Romp, an abridged version of Bickerstaffe's Love in the City. She left the stage for a time to be educated. After playing in the country she appeared at Covent Garden Theatre 13 November 1789, as Miss Richards from Margate, in The Citizen of Murphy.

The following year she joined at Hull the company of Tate Wilkinson, playing with great success in comedy. In the line of parts taken by Mrs. Jordan, Wilkinson declares her the 'very best' he has seen, surpassing her predecessor in youth and grace. 'Her face,' he says, 'is more than pretty, it is handsome and strong featured, not unlike Bellamy's; her person is rather short, but take her altogether she is a nice little woman'. She married John Edwin the younger and she joined with her husband the mixed company of actors and amateurs assembled by the Earl of Barrymore at Wargrave. She appeared with her husband at the Haymarket Theatre, 20 June 1792, as Lucy in An Old Man taught Wisdom. Subsequently, she passed to the private theatre in Fishamble Street, Dublin, opened by Lord Westmeath and Frederick Jones.

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