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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN
 
  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
Marie Lloyd

(stage name of Matilda Wood, 1879–1922)
Perhaps the greatest of all *music-hall stars. Her speciality was warm-hearted songs about everyday life, made saucy with the help of her famous wink (or sometimes even without it – She'd never had her ticket punched before was one of her early numbers). The favourites in her repertoire were A little of what you fancy does you good, Oh, Mr Porter, in her last years One of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit – and, above all, Don't dilly-dally on the way.
 








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