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The Edwin Booth Family Collection archives are held in the University Library at California State University, Northridge. [44] In 1894, Booth's daughter, Edwina Booth Grossman, published a book about her father, reportedly concerned that his legacy as an actor would be marred by his brother's assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. [45]
The Booth family was an English American theatrical family of the 19th century. Its most known members were brothers Edwin Booth , one of the leading actors of his day, and John Wilkes Booth , also a fellow actor most remembered for assassinating Abraham Lincoln .
Edwina Booth Grossman (December 9, 1861 – December 26, 1938) was an American writer and the daughter of Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth.In 1894, she published the book Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossman, and Letters to Her and to His Friends in an effort to protect her father's legacy after the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Grossman's uncle, John ...
In 1823, Booth did the role in New York in the English adaptation by Ambrose Philips with Mary Ann Duff as Hermione. Left to right: Booth's sons, John, Edwin, and Junius Jr. in Julius Caesar. In 1825–1826 and 1836–1837, Booth made tours of his native England. He took his whole family with him for the second of these.
Pages in category "Booth family" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Edwin Booth; G. Edwina Booth Grossman; J. John Wilkes Booth;
In December 2010, descendants of Edwin Booth reported that they obtained permission to exhume the Shakespearean actor's body to obtain DNA samples to compare with a sample of his brother John's DNA to refute the rumor that John had escaped after the assassination.
Junius Brutus Booth Jr. (December 22, 1821 – September 17, 1883) [1] was an American actor and theatre manager. As a member of the illustrious Booth family of actors, Junius Brutus Booth Jr. was overshadowed by his father Junius Sr. and brothers Edwin and John Wilkes (the assassin of Abraham Lincoln) and later by his wife Agnes, a successful actress.
Asia Frigga Booth was the eighth in the family of ten children born to Junius Brutus Booth and his wife Mary Ann Holmes. Her famous brothers were Junius Brutus Booth Jr., Edwin Thomas Booth, and John Wilkes Booth (who later became the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln) .