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51. Portrait of Donald Bradman

from State Library of New South Wales

Look out, Violet has hands on hips!!!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Violet Augusta Mary Bourchier, née Barnes (11 June 1867 – 11 November 1942), known professionally as Violet Vanbrugh, was an English actress with a career that spanned more than fifty years.

    Vanbrugh was from a family with theatrical connections. The actress Irene Vanbrugh was one of her younger sisters and a brother, Kenneth Barnes, became principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.”

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Vanbrugh
  • John Spooner said:
    "Arthur Bourchier (22 June 1863 – 14 September 1927) was an English actor and theatre manager. He married and later divorced the actress Violet Vanbrugh."

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bourchier
  • beachcomber australia said:
    All the "V's ... ...
    Via Special Collections

    Edit - From the Notes at the bottom of the wiki page ...
    "In her memoirs, Irene Vanbrugh wrote, "It was the fashion then to have your two initials the same and Ellen Terry … happened to come across a novel called 'Miss Vanbrugh the Actress'. She laughingly suggested to Vi that she should call herself Violet Vanbrugh."
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Wow, that is amazing!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel John Spooner Thank you both. Hope to hear more! If that's not being greedy?

HC07123

from Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County

  • Brenda Brenda said:
    Bessie M Clarke Female 30 December 1897 – 3 March 1902
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    Info from FamilySearch.org