MINNIE MADDERN FISKE (1865– )
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Originally appearing in Volume
V10,
Page 438
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE (1865– )
, American actress, was born in New See also: - ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
, the daughter of See also: - THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Davey
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As a child she played, under her mother's name of Maddern, with several well-known actors
.
In 1882 she first appeared as a " star," but in 1890 she married Harrison Grey Fiske and was absent from the stage for several years
.
In 1893 she reappeared in Hester Crewe, a play written by her husband, and afterwards acted a number of Ibsen's heroines, and in Becky Sharp, a dramatization of Thackeray's Vanity Fair
.
In 1901 she opened, in opposition to the American theatrical " trust," an independent theatre in New York, the Manhattan
.
She won a considerable reputation in the United States as an emotional actress
.
End of Article: MINNIE MADDERN FISKE (1865– )
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