the stage in 1769. By 1754 she had taken up residence at Little Strawberry Hill, a cottage provided for her by her friend Horace Walpole, who named it "Clive's Den" or Cliveden. In a letter written Sept. 7, 1782 to Earl Harcourt, Walpole remarked, "Dame Cliveden is the only heroine amongst all us old dowagers; she is so much recovered that she ventures to go out cruising on all the neighbours, and has made a miraculous draught of fishes."In a letter to his friend George Montagu, he wrote "Strawberry is in perfection...the orange-trees are loaded with blossoms, the Gallery all sun and gold, Mrs. Clive all sun and vermilion."Clive was in great demand at card parties and conversational soirees. Boswell quoted his friend Samuel Johnson who said of her, "Clive, Sir, is a good thing to sit by; she always understands what you say."She died on December 6, 1785, and was buried in the churchyard at St Mary's Church, Twickenham. A plaque to her memory is affixed to the outside wall of the church with a poem written by her friend, the actress Jane Pope. Selected performances Rosella in The Village Opera by Charles Johnson (1729) Phillida in Love in a Riddle by Colley Cibber (1729) Kitty in The Humours of Oxford by James Miller (1730) Dulceda in Bayes's Opera by Gabriel Odingsells (1730) Nell in The Devil to Pay by Charles Coffey (1731) Chlose in The Lottery by Henry Fielding (1732) Mercury in Timon in Love by John Kelly 1733) Maria in The Man of Taste by James Miller (1735) Liberia in The Universal Passion by James Miller (1737) Violetta in Art and Nature by James Miller (1738) Miss Kitty in The Coffee House by James Miller (1738) Rosamond in Rosamond by Thomas Arne (1740) Kitty in High Life Below Stairs by James Townley (1759) Muslin in The Way to Keep Him by Arthur Murphy (1760) Lady Beverly in The School for Lovers by William Whitehead (1762) Sift in The Widowed Wife by William Kenrick (1767) Mrs Winifred in The School for Rakes by Elizabeth Griffith (1769) References and sources References External links 1711 births 1785 deaths English dramatists and playwrights English sopranos English women dramatists and playwrights 18th-century British women writers English women writers 18th-century English actresses English stage actresses Actresses from London Singers from London English people of Irish descent Writers from London 18th-century English writers 18th-century