Isabel Bateman

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Isabel Bateman, 1874

Isabel Bateman (December 28, 1854 – 1934)[1] was an American actress. She was born near Cincinnati, Ohio on December 28, 1854. The daughter of the actors H. L. Bateman and Sidney Frances Bateman. Her sisters were the actors Kate Josephine Bateman and Virginia Frances Bateman.

Her family relocated to England in 1863. She first played a juvenile part in 1865 in her sister, Kate’s, farewell benefit at Her Majesty's Theatre. She began active theatrical work in 1869. She took leading parts with Henry Irving for six years. She was very successful in many leading roles.[2]

She left the theatre in 1898 and entered the Anglican Community of St Mary the Virgin in Wantage, eventually becoming Mother Superior of the Order.[3]

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  1. ^ Isabel Bateman; findagrave memorial
  2. ^ Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 62.
  3. ^ Gayle T. Harris, Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman, - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed 26 April 2019

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 62.

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