Vintage Cabinet Card Edith Chester British actress Sarony Photo

Description: Check Out My Other Items !! I Combine Shipping on Multiple Item Orders !! Edith Chester (1864–1894; born Edith Morgan Gellibrand), known also as Leslie Chester, was a British actress.[1] Early lifeChester was born in Arkhangelsk in March 1864;[2] she was the second daughter of Thomas Samuel Gellibrand (1820/1–1897, born in Madras), a British timber merchant resident in Russia from 1847 to 1865.[3][4][5] She came from a family who opposed her wish to go on the stage. Her paternal grandfather was Sheriff of Madras, Thomas Gellibrand (died 1824).[6] She has been identified as a model for The Golden Stairs, an 1880 painting by Edward Burne-Jones; but some research suggests the face in question is that of Dorothy Dene.[1][2][7] Walter Crane in his memoir An Artist's Reminiscences (1907) described a sea pleasure trip of the early 1880s, from Brightlingsea to Torquay, in a party where Chester and Calliope Sechiari, daughter of Aglaia Coronio, were the female guests.[8] Performances in amateur productions in 1883, under her real name with her sister Lina, gained Chester positive press coverage. At the Londesborough Theatre in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, she played Helen Gaythorne in Weak Woman by Henry James Byron, and Lisette in the after-piece The Swiss Cottage by Thomas Haynes Bayly.[9] Appearing in a charity performance at St. George's Hall, London, in Tom Taylor's The Serf, she was pronounced "charming" as Acoulina

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