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in 1844, although a marriage to another man was erroneously reported in the London press the year before: "Miss P. Horton, the Ariel of Drury Lane, and the universal favorite of all playgoers, is no longer Miss Horton. She has given her hand, we learn, to a Mr. Wheatley, a respectable wharfinger" It
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