List of American women in 19th century theater
A
- Emma Abbott - (December 9, 1850 - January 5, 1891) Opera soprano from Chicago, Illinois. Awarded a contract with the Royal Opera in London and debuted at Covent Garden. Returned to America and founded the Abbott English Opera Company with her husband Eugene Wetherell, gaining a successful reputation. Abbot sang in the company as Juliette in Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette (1867).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Abbott
- Bessie Abott (1878-February 9, 1919) Born Bessie Pickens in Heuvelton, New York. American operatic soprano who made her professional debut at Pickens Hall (built by her grandfather, John Pickens Sr.). Performed in Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette as Juliette.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Abott
- Florence Adelaide Fowle Adams (October 15, 1863 - July 31, 1916) Born Florence Adelaide Fowle in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Adelaide_Fowle_Adams
- Maude Adams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Adams
- Suzanne Adams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Adams
- Sara Adler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Adler
- Ullie Akerstrom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullie_Akerstrom
- Viola Alberti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Alberti
- Viola Allen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Allen
- Mary Anderson (actress, born 1859)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anderson_(actress,_born_1859)
B
Emily Bancker
Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes
Ethel Barrymore
Isabel Bateman
Kate Josephine Bateman
Sidney Frances Bateman
Virginia Frances Bateman
Blanche Bates
Nora Bayes
Louise Beaudet
Rose Beaudet
Laura Joyce Bell
Ann West Bignall
Amelia Bingham
Kitty Blanchard
Lillian Blauvelt
Clara Bloodgood
Marjorie Bonner (19th century actress)
Jessie Bonstelle
Agnes Booth
Elizabeth Crocker Bowers
Belle Boyd
May Brookyn
Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter
Nellie Marie Burns
Marie Burroughs
Jessie Busley
Sarah Hildreth Butler
C
Marie Cahill
Georgia Caine
Beatrice Cameron
Mrs. Leslie Carter
Emma Carus
Louise Carver
Georgia Cayvan
Henrietta Baker Chanfrau
Beatrice Chanler
Caroline Chapman
Edythe Chapman
Charlotte Baldwin
Alfreda Chippendale
Gertrude Claire
Ada Clare
Marguerite Clark
Kate Claxton
Viola Katherine Clemmons
Josephine Clifton
Ella Maria Dietz Clymer
Laura Sedgwick Collins
Nanette Comstock
Ida Conquest
Sarah Crocker Conway
Ethyle Cooke
Mabelle Gilman Corey
Mae Costello
Lotta Crabtree
Marcella Craft
Maida Craigen
Laura Hope Crews
Henrietta Crosman
Charlotte Cushman
Pauline Cushman
Susan Webb Cushman
D
Margaret Dale (actress)
Helen Dauvray
Alice Davenport
Milla Davenport
Phoebe Davies
Fay Davis
Henrietta Vinton Davis
Jessie Bartlett Davis
May de Sousa
Julia Dean (actress, born 1830)
Camille D'elmar
Kate Denin
Susan Denin
Laura Don
Frances Ann Denny Drake
Virginia Dreher
Louise Dresser
Dorothy Drew
Georgiana Drew
Louisa Lane Drew
Helen Dunbar
Minnie Dupree
Maud Durbin
E
Virginia Earle
Elise, Countess of Edla
Eliza Crisp
Eliza Riddle Field
Elizabeth Hamblin
Maxine Elliott
Edith Ellis (playwright)
Effie Ellsler
Agnes Ethel
Lizzie Evans
Pearl Eytinge
Rose Eytinge
F
Maude Fealy
Elsie Ferguson
Bijou Fernandez
Kate Field
Margarita Fischer
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Harriet Ford
Louise Woodworth Foss
Della Fox
Frances Denny Drake
Irene Franklin
Olive Fremstad
Emma Sheridan Fry
G
Minna Gale
Bertha Galland
Grace George
Effie Germon
Sylvia Gerrish
Amelia Holman Gilfert
Lulu Glaser
Katherine Grey (actress)
Louise Gunning
H
Louise Closser Hale
Laura Nelson Hall
Pauline Hall
Virginia Harned
Alice Harrison
Percy Haswell
Ella Hattan
Grace Henderson
Ogarita Booth Henderson
Beatrice Herford
Adrienne McNeil Herndon
Chrystal Herne
Bijou Heron
Matilda Heron
Mabel Hite
Edna Wallace Hopper
Kate Horn
Jean Hosmer
Lotty Hough
Jobyna Howland
Caroline Miskel Hoyt
Hyers Sisters
I
Isabel Irving
J
Ethel Jackson
Fanny Janauschek
Elsie Janis
Marie Jansen
Cornelia Frances Jefferson
Maud Jeffries
Izetta Jewel
Susan Johnstone
Avonia Jones
Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones
Pauline Joran
K
Florence Kahn (actress)
Bertha Kalich
Kathleen Kerrigan (actress)
Kathryn Kidder
Jennie Kimball
Sarah Kirby-Stark
Mrs. Edward Knight
L
Lucille La Verne
La Sylphe
Paulina Lavitz
Lillian Lawrence
Louise Le Baron
Sarah Cowell Le Moyne
Jennie Lee (American actress)
Lillian Lee
Mercedes Leigh
Amy Leslie
Elsie Leslie
Annie Lewis
Clara Lipman
Keni Liptzin
Little Tuesday
Eliza Logan
Olive Logan
Marion Lorne
M
Annie Mack
Jessie Mackaye
Marietta Judah
Julia Marlowe
Mary Maurice
Olive May
Kate Mayhew
Margaret Mayo (playwright)
Mollie McConnell
Nancy McIntosh
Margaret McWade
Rose Melville
Adah Isaacs Menken
Ann Brunton Merry
Maggie Mitchell
Helena Modjeska
Virginia Monier
Annabelle Moore
Polly Moran
Jane Morgan (actress)
Giuseppina Morlacchi
Clara Morris
Anna Cora Mowatt
N
Miriam Nesbitt
Alice Nielsen
O
Alice Oates
Maude Odell
Peggy O'Neil
Julie Opp
Elita Proctor Otis
P
Mabel Paige
Minnie Palmer
Charlotte Blair Parker
Jane Peyton
Annie Pixley
Charlotte Wrighten Placide
Jane Placide
Eliza Poe
Madame Ponisi
Lily Post
Kate Price (actress)
Eva Puck
R
Lulah Ragsdale
Jessie Ralph
Phyllis Rankin
Dora Knowlton Ranous
Kate Raymond
Olive Redpath
Ada Rehan
Carrie Reynolds
Fanny Rice
Emily Rigl
Blanche Ring
Annie Robe
Florence Roberts
Florence Roberts (actress)
May Robson
Genevieve Rogers
Rose Sydell
Isadore Rush
Ada Dwyer Russell
Annie Russell
Lillian Russell
S
Josie Sadler
Julia Sanderson
Sibyl Sanderson
Zelda Sears
Evelyn Selbie
Selene Johnson
Effie Shannon
Truly Shattuck
Charlotte Shelby
Sydney Shields
Catherine Norton Sinclair
Beverley Sitgreaves
Rose Stahl
Genevieve Stebbins
Rowena Granice Steele
T
Edith Taliaferro
Fay Templeton
Gertrude Thanhouser
Bessie Thomashefsky
Minnie Tittell Brune
Helen Tracy
Sarah Truax
Carrie Turner (actress)
Florence Turner
Odette Tyler
Elizabeth Tyree
U
Geraldine Ulmar
Isabelle Urquhart
V
Grace Van Studdiford
Marie van Zandt
Vera Freeman
Mary Ann Vincent
Annie Von Behren
W
Marie Wainwright
Charlotte Walker
Aida Overton Walker
Blanche Walsh
Fannie Ward
Helen Ware
Ida Waterman
Stella Weaver
Mary E. Webb
Rebecca Weintraub
Lucille Western
Helen Westley
Sarah Wheatley
Blanche Whiffen
Whitman Sisters
Dora Wiley
Bertha M. Wilson
Jennie Worrell
X
Y
Ellen Beach Yaw
Annie Yeamans
May Yohé
Rida Johnson Young
Z