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Harriett Pitt (1748? – 10 December, 1814) was a British actress and dancer. ==Life== Pitt was born to Ann Pitt who was an actress. In 1848 she was appearing doing recitations. The theatrical career did not involve major parts but she did appear at the Drury Lane Theatre and the Covent Garden Theatre. She established a relationship with Charles Dibdin who already had a family and together they had three children. The eldest was the songwriter Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin who was born in 1768, the next was a daughter known also as Harriett Pitt, in 1770 and another son and songwriter was Thomas John Dibdin who was born in 1771.〔 Harriett gave birth to Thomas in Russell Court, Covent Garden, he was named after his father's librettist Isaac Bickerstaffe and their character Mungo in an afterpiece entitled ''The Padlock''. Charles Dibdin made his theatrical debut opposite his elder brother Thomas John Dibdin in David Garrick's〔McConnell Stott, p. 80〕 ''The Jubilee'' in 1775. Soon after this performance, his parents separated, and Charles changed his surname to Pitt.〔Kilburn, Matthew. ("Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo" ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, accessed December 2012 〕 David Garrick was Thomas's godfather and he looked after the family when the elder Charles Dibdin abandoned this family too.〔Dwayne Brenna, ‘Pitt, Ann (c.1720–1799)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2013 (accessed 9 Feb 2015 )〕 Harriett entrusted the upbringing of her children to her brother, Cecil, and he sent both boys away to a boarding school at Barnard Castle. The school kept them there even during the holidays and Thomas did not return for five years.〔Matthew Kilburn, ‘Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo (1768–1833)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 9 Feb 2015 )〕 Harriett appeared at the Drury Lane Theatre in the 1770s as she started to use the name "Mrs Davenett". Still using this new name she obtained regular work at the Covent Gardem during most of the 1780s and until 1793.〔 Pitt retired in 1793 and she was buried, with her mother, in 1814.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harriet Pitt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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