Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Jenny Hill (1848 – June 28, 1896), (born as Elizabeth Jane Thompson) was a popular British music hall performer of the Victorian era known as "The Vital Spark" and "the Queen of the Halls". Her vast repertoire of songs included "Arry", "The Boy I Love Is In The Gallery", "The Little Vagabond Boy", "I've Been a Good Woman to You" and "If I Only Bossed the Show". A later contemporary of Marie Lloyd and Bessie Bellwood, Hill made her stage début at an early age when she performed in Mother Goose at the Aquarium Theatre in Westminster. Embarking on a career in music hall, Hill sang at, amongst others, the London Pavilion. From 1868 to 1893, Hill was at the peak of her fame, enjoying top-billing at music halls across London and in the northern provencies. In 1879 she became a proprieter of her first music hall in Bermondsey. From 1882 to she kept a public house in Southwark which lasted a year. She later purchased the Rainbow Music Hall (later renamed the Gaiety Theatre) in Southampton in July 1884, but it was destroyed in a fire the same year. On stage, she played Mrs Micawber in an adaptation of David Copperfield; and also played 'Nan' in the 1889 revival of J. B. Buckstone's Good for Nothing at the Grecian Theatre in Shoreditch. By 1889 the privations she had suffered in her early life were taking their toll, and she was forced to cancel a number of theatrical engagements due to ill health. A tour of New York in 1891 was not a success, and she returned to London. She later appeared at the Luscombe Searelle, Johannesburg, in 1893. By now her health was so poor that she could only be taken onto the stage in her wheelchair where she shook hands with her audience. Returning to Britain in 1894 and in poor health, Hill died in London aged 48. She is buried in Nunhead Cemetery in London.. }
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- Jenny_Hill_(music_hall_performer) abstract "Jenny Hill (1848 – June 28, 1896), (born as Elizabeth Jane Thompson) was a popular British music hall performer of the Victorian era known as "The Vital Spark" and "the Queen of the Halls". Her vast repertoire of songs included "Arry", "The Boy I Love Is In The Gallery", "The Little Vagabond Boy", "I've Been a Good Woman to You" and "If I Only Bossed the Show". A later contemporary of Marie Lloyd and Bessie Bellwood, Hill made her stage début at an early age when she performed in Mother Goose at the Aquarium Theatre in Westminster. Embarking on a career in music hall, Hill sang at, amongst others, the London Pavilion. From 1868 to 1893, Hill was at the peak of her fame, enjoying top-billing at music halls across London and in the northern provencies. In 1879 she became a proprieter of her first music hall in Bermondsey. From 1882 to she kept a public house in Southwark which lasted a year. She later purchased the Rainbow Music Hall (later renamed the Gaiety Theatre) in Southampton in July 1884, but it was destroyed in a fire the same year. On stage, she played Mrs Micawber in an adaptation of David Copperfield; and also played 'Nan' in the 1889 revival of J. B. Buckstone's Good for Nothing at the Grecian Theatre in Shoreditch. By 1889 the privations she had suffered in her early life were taking their toll, and she was forced to cancel a number of theatrical engagements due to ill health. A tour of New York in 1891 was not a success, and she returned to London. She later appeared at the Luscombe Searelle, Johannesburg, in 1893. By now her health was so poor that she could only be taken onto the stage in her wheelchair where she shook hands with her audience. Returning to Britain in 1894 and in poor health, Hill died in London aged 48. She is buried in Nunhead Cemetery in London.".