Mary Hewins Fox memory book, c. 1863.

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Mary Hewins Fox memory book, c. 1863.

This memory album was assembled by Mary Hewins Fox (later Mary Hewins Fiske) to document her involvement with theater, music, and poetry in New York City.

90 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7146604

William L. Clements Library

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Fiske, Mary H., -1889

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Mary Hewins Fox (later Mary Hewins Fiske, 1842-1889) was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1842. Mary became a well known actress and also wrote poetry and contributed to numerous periodicals. She first appeared on stage at the old Museum in Troy, then later at Laura Keene's Varieties in New York City. She also wrote poems, dramatizations that were produced for stage, and, under the pen name Giddy Gusher, prose sketches for the New York Dramatic Mirror . She married the actor/comedian Charles K....