Life
?-1805; author of The Double Disguise (1784), a comic opera; also compiled Sacred Hours, relig. poems (1806), and other musical works; m. James Hook, with whom she collaborated, and whose songs incl. “The Lass of Richmond Hill” [usually ascribed to Leonard McNally]. PI
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References
Dictionary of National Biography cites H. H. Hook under Theodore Edward Hook (her son), who was the model for Lucian Gay in Disraeli’s Coningsby and for Mr. Wagg in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
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