December 19 is the birthday of Minnie Maddern Fiske (Marie Augusta Davey, 1865-1932), almost invariably known in her day as “Mrs. Fiske”. (The use of a husband’s patronymic in combination with a married woman’s honorific as a stage name was a tradition that went all the way back to the Restoration, when women were first […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:42AM on December 19, 2017