Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Arne, Mrs

by John Weeks Moore

Arne, Mrs. Wife 10 the preceding. Her maiden name was Cecilia Young ; she was a pupil of Geminiani, and sang in public for the first time at Drury Lane, in 1730. With a good natural voice and hue shake, Mrs. Arne had been so well taught, that her style of singing was infinitely superior to that of any other English woman of her time. She died about the year 1795.