The date of this marriage is disputed. Rogers discusses the discrepancies in his 2004 articleArchived 5 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. An article from The New York Times (1890) says that the marriage took place in 1714 and Lady Oxford was a witness. The marriage went unrecognized by Lord Peterborough although he accompanied her to and from the opera. She remained prima donna from 1714 to 1722, having joined the opera in 1712 due to her family's poverty when her father's eyesight began to fail. Despite Anastasia's retirement from the stage in 1722 owing to advanced made to her in her equivocal position, her husband still refused to acknowledge her. She lived with her mother in Fulham.
Rogers (2004) points out that Charles Burney's General History of Music (1789), based on information supplied by Mary Delany is the main source of information for subsequent biographies; however, recent research using letters by Alexander Pope (who knew both Peterborough and Mordaunt) may contradict these long-held beliefs.
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The date of this marriage is disputed. Rogers discusses the discrepancies in his 2004 articleArchived 5 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. An article from The New York Times (1890) says that the marriage took place in 1714 and Lady Oxford was a witness. The marriage went unrecognized by Lord Peterborough although he accompanied her to and from the opera. She remained prima donna from 1714 to 1722, having joined the opera in 1712 due to her family's poverty when her father's eyesight began to fail. Despite Anastasia's retirement from the stage in 1722 owing to advanced made to her in her equivocal position, her husband still refused to acknowledge her. She lived with her mother in Fulham.
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The date of this marriage is disputed. Rogers discusses the discrepancies in his 2004 articleArchived 5 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. An article from The New York Times (1890) says that the marriage took place in 1714 and Lady Oxford was a witness. The marriage went unrecognized by Lord Peterborough although he accompanied her to and from the opera. She remained prima donna from 1714 to 1722, having joined the opera in 1712 due to her family's poverty when her father's eyesight began to fail. Despite Anastasia's retirement from the stage in 1722 owing to advanced made to her in her equivocal position, her husband still refused to acknowledge her. She lived with her mother in Fulham.
