KEENE, LAURA (c. 1820-1873)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 713 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

KEENE, LAURA (c. 1820-1873) , Anglo-American actress and manager, whose real name was Mary

Moss

, was born in England. In 1851, in London, she was playing Pauline in The Lady of Lyons. She made her first

appearance

in New

York

on the loth of September 1852, on her way to Australia. She returned in 1855 and till 1863 managed Laura

Keene

's theatre, in which was produced, in 1858, Our American

Cousin

. It was her company that was playing at Ford's theatre, Washington, on the night of Lincoln's assassination. Miss

Keene

was a successful melodramatic actress, and an admirable manager. She died at Montclair, New

Jersey

, on the 4th of November 1873.
See John Creahan's Life of Laura Keene (1897).

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