Gertrude Campbell
Irish writer, journalist, and critic
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Charlotte Crabtree
American actress who left her massive fortune to charity
Dorothea Jordan
“As an actress in comedy Dorothy Jordan can have had few equals, and no woman of the stage was ever more extravagantly praised by the eminent critics of her time.”
Frances Burney
English novelist and social leader
Ellen Kean
English actress
Fanny Davenport
American stage actress and manager
Margaret Cavendish
Duchess of Newcastle and English writer.
Nola Leigh Millar
First director of the New Zealand Drama School
Nell Gwyn
English actress, one of the favorites of Charles II
Laura Keene
American actress and manager