Biographical sketches of eminent actors and actresses, 1874.

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Biographical sketches of eminent actors and actresses, 1874.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79662533

Contains biographical sketches of actors and actresses, including Lilian Adelaide Neilson, James K. Anderson, Laura Keene, and Eliza Logan. Also includes manuscripts in an unidentified hand of Clarissa and the beginning of Redwood (Act I) by Hutchinson.

1 v. (.1 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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Anderson, James, 1921-1969

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Logan, Eliza.

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Neilson, Lilian Adelaide.

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Hutchinson, Rudolphe.

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Hutchinson was a writer and playwright. From the description of Biographical sketches of eminent actors and actresses, 1874. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79662533 ...

Keene, Laura, 1826-1873

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Actress starring in the play "Our American Cousin" in Washington, D.C. the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. She was said to have taken a pitcher of water to him and cradled his head, thus staining her gown with his blood. From the description of Papers. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52112391 Laura Keene was a nineteenth-century actress who was playing in Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater the night Abraham Lincoln was shot. She was als...