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Margaret Hughes , also Peg Hughes or Margaret Hewes, is often credited as the first professional actress on the English stage. Hughes was also famous as the mistress of the English Civil War general and later Restoration admiral, Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

✵ 29. May 1645 – 1. October 1719
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Famous Margaret Hughes Quotes

“This is the stupidest place I have ever visited,' she said. 'I shall never come here again.' The tall man looked at her in silence and nodded. 'Yes, you will,' he said. 'You won't be able to stay away now that you have come.”

Margaret Hughes

All On A Summer's Day (1953).

“I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.”

Margaret Hughes

On the reaction of male journalists to a female reporting cricket. Guardian obituary http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/feb/09/guardianobituaries.cricket

“The Australia of her book is not merely a setting for cricket but a place of interest, of fun and of new impressions”

Margaret Hughes

John Arlott, review of The Long Hop; quoted in Times obituary http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article516103.ece
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“A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.”

Margaret Hughes

All On A Summer's Day (1953).

“As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?”

Margaret Hughes

The Long Hop (1955).

“Now the Englishmen suddenly came to life. Four runs later Harvey received a beast of a ball from Tyson which spat up at him and splashed off his bat to Cowdrey, 104 for 4.”

Margaret Hughes

The Long Hop (1955).

“Very few reporters in Fleet Street can write on the game with as much observation, sense of scene and character, and knowledge of the things that technically and tactically matter.”

Margaret Hughes

Neville Cardus, Foreword to All On A Summer's Day.
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“The work of an enthusiast who has watched and enjoyed cricket with an eye for detail and for character, for adventure and the human reflection beyond the ropes. It will, I fancy, be read with the same pleasure as it was written.”

Margaret Hughes

John Arlott, review of All On A Summer's Day; quoted in Times obituary http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article516103.ece
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