Author: Kirkpatrick, Frank Le Brun (Philadelphia, 1853-1917)
Title: Portrait of the Actress Julia Marlowe (1866 - 1950). Original Etching
Description: Troy, NY: Nims & Knight, 1889. Original etching on thin India paper, mounted on board at the corners. 10 x 7.25 inches sheet size.Creases in lower right corner. Includes a separate 2 page letterpress biography of the actress by Robert. N. Stephens. Originally published in the portfolio entitled: "Queens of the Drama.".. Marlowe, Julia (1866-1950) English-born actress who was one of the most popular Shakespearean actresses on the American stage of her day . Name variations: earliest stage name, Fanny Brough; performed as Julia Marlowe from 1887; also known as Mrs. Robert Taber (1894-1900), then Mrs. Edward H. Sothern (from 1911); Julia Marlowe Sothern. Born Sarah Frances Frost (family changed name to Sarah Frances Brough) on August 17, 1866, at the village of Upton Caldbeck, near Keswick, Cumberlandshire, England; died in New York City on November 12, 1950; daughter of farmers; attended Kansas and Cincinnati, Ohio, public schools; married Robert Taber (an actor), in 1894 (divorced 1900); marriedE.H. Sothern (1859-1933, an actor), on August 17, 1911 (died October 28, 1933). .

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