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169: 33: 250:. "For painstaking attention to detail, nicety of intonation, and powerful expression, Agnes Booth is in the front rank of leading ladies. We have seen her in many society dramas, and in each she has shown a charming appreciation of all the requirements... The mingled expression of shame, suffering and maternal love in Agnes Booth's face during scene is one not soon to be forgotten. In 1874, she and Junius made a praise-worthy trip to the far west playing San Francisco's 627: 222: 195:, San Francisco, attracting attention and gaining recognition and managing a season of the Metropolitan theatre in Detroit. In 1861 she married actor Harry A. Perry in San Francisco, but was widowed in 1862. Her six-year apprenticeship with 125: 196: 192: 233:
described her as "the most finished and effective emotional actress at present on the metropolitan stage." She played Belinda in the first American production of
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Junius Booth died in 1883, and in 1885 she married John B. Schoeffel, manager of Boston's Tremont theatre. Her last major performance was in
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Carolyn Grattan Eichin, From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian Theater in the American West, (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2020), 175.
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New York: A Guide to the Empire State; The Workers of the Writers' Program of the Works Projects Administration in the State of New York
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Although there are no records of Agnes Booth's birth or her family's residence in Australia, by her own account she was born in
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895–1930) Sunday, 27 February 1910, page 18. An "Australian American."
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At the height of her popularity reviews of her performances were effusive. In 1874, the
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She made her US debut in early 1858 as Agnes Land, performing with her sister Belle at
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Pat M. Ryan in Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer, eds. (1971)
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Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1
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allowed her to move from shape actress to leading lady.
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Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary A. (1893).
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Nineteenth-century American Women Theatre Managers.
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Index


W. S. Gilbert
Engaged
Sydney
Brookline

Australian
Junius Brutus Booth
Edwin Booth
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln

Sydney
New South Wales
California
Maguire's Opera House
Thomas Maguire
New York
Winter Garden Theatre
Boston Theatre Company
Junius Brutus Booth Jr.

W. S. Gilbert
Engaged
California Theater
Piper's Opera House
Virginia City
Union Square Theatre
Madison Square
Europe

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