As You Like It: Mrs. Alsop as Rosalind, circa 1818.

“Mrs. Alsop”: This lady is one of the elder daughters of the late celebrated Mrs. Jordan; and like that charming and highly distinguished actress, she evinces herself a true and native disciple of Thalia. . . . Nature speaks in the voice, and diffuses herself over the manners of this captivating actress; the same delightful variety in her action, the same spell-like accent when Mrs. Alsop speaks, so remind the audience of her mother. . . . In Mrs. Alsop's personation of Rosalind, we scarce know how to regret the best Rosalind that ever was performed when played by her inimitable mother, who seemed, in short, the very Rosalind that Shakespeare drew: it is a most difficult character, to unite archness and naivete with those manners that had received their polish in a court. Mrs. Alsop, like her mother, does all this. . . . The brilliant and often crowded audiences that have attended her performances with continual pleasure, will testify that her merits are not overrated, when we declare her to be one of the very first comic actresses of the present age. . . . Few are able to unite fascination with hoydenism, and distinguish and draw the line between vulgarity and artlessness, or to turn with quick transit ion from the rusticity which native elegance may chuse to adopt, to polished ease of manners when the disguise is thrown off. Such is Rosalind—and such has she been depicted by Mrs. Jordan, and as such is she still seen in Mrs. Alsop. (La Belle Assemblée, May 1818)