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MARY ANDERSON (1859– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 960 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARY See also:ANDERSON (1859– )  , See also:American actress, was See also:born at See also:Sacramento, See also:California, on the 28th of See also:July 1859 . Her See also:father, an officer in the Confederate service in the See also:Civil See also:War, died in 1863 . She was educated in various See also:Roman See also:Catholic institutions, and at the See also:age of thirteen, with the See also:advice of See also:Charlotte See also:Cushman, began to study for the See also:stage, making her first See also:appearance at See also:Louisville, See also:Kentucky, as Juliet in 1875 . Her remarkable beauty created an immediate success, and she played in all the large cities of the See also:United States with increasing popularity . Between 1883 and 1889 she had several seasons in See also:London, and was the Rosalind in the performance of As You Like It which opened the See also:Shakespeare Memorial See also:theatre at See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon . Among her See also:chief parts were Galatea (in W . S . See also:Gilbert's See also:Pygmalion and Galatea), Clarice (in his See also:Comedy and Tragedy, written for her), Hermione, Perdita, and Julia (in The Hunchback) . In 1889 she retired from the stage and in 1890 married See also:Antonio de See also:Navarro, and settled in See also:England . See See also:William See also:Winter's Stage See also:Life of See also:Mary See also:Anderson (New See also:York, 1886), and her own A Few Memories (New York, 1896) .

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