LOVE

Emma Sarah (dau. of W. E. Love, lieutenant in H.M. service, d. about 1814). b. Cheap side, London 10 Sep. 1801; ed. in music by D. Corri; appeared at English opera house as Mrs. Courtly in Free and Easy 1817; took leading vocal parts under Samuel J. Arnold at Lyceum theatre; appeared at Covent Garden 1822 with great succe , then at the Hay market 1823; played Marina in the operatic entertainment Cortez; acted in the provinces; played Lilla in Cobb’s comic opera The siege of Belgrade, at Drury Lane 1828; a very beautiful woman who sang ‘What is more dear to the heart of the brave’ and ‘Little love is a mischievous boy’ to perfection; believed by The Era of 23 Dec. 1882 to be then living. Cumber land’s British theatre , vol. xx (1828), portrait ; Oxberry’s Dramatic biography , iii 163–74 (1825), portrait .