Locke, Florence

Miss Locke was an actress, widely known in the United States and England in the 1930s, who had studied under Adrian Brunel and Yvette Guilbert. She gave numerous dramatic recitals of works by Shakespeare, Stephen Vincent Benét, Amy Lowell and others in small theaters, clubs and drawing rooms. She had the exclusive right, through Edith Craig, to present Ellen Terry's lectures on Shakespeare. She gave two recitals at the Folger Shakespeare Library and corresponded with Mrs. Folger, her nephew, E.J. Dimock, and the director J.Q. Adams, 1935-1936.