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ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 960 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDERSON, See also:MARY (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 Mary Anderson (New See also:York, 1886), and her own A Few Memories (New York, 1896).

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