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Ellen Bright, who exhibited at Wombwell’s menagerie, was so called. She was killed by a tiger in 1880, at the age of seventeen.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.