Essie Jenyns (5 October 1864 â€" 6 August 1920) was an Australian
actress best known for her Shakespearean roles.Elizabeth Esther Ellen
Jennings was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1864. Her father, Charles
Robert Merevale Jennings, was a chemist who died in 1871 when Jenyns
was seven. To support the family, her mother, Emily Ann née Morse,
became an actress using the stage name Kate Arden and married William
John Holloway, an actor and stage manager in 1877.Jenyns began her
stage career in Leah, the Forsaken at the Theatre Royal in Hobart in
January 1879. Her performance was reviewed as "childlike and natural
as little Leah, and gave promise of future success in parts of this
description". Next, in After Dark, she "surprised everyone by her
natural rendering of Johnny Williams, a 'sidewalk merchant prince'".
At age 18 her Ophelia was described in The Bulletin as "a performance
full of promise... We shall watch this young lady's career with
interest".
actress best known for her Shakespearean roles.Elizabeth Esther Ellen
Jennings was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1864. Her father, Charles
Robert Merevale Jennings, was a chemist who died in 1871 when Jenyns
was seven. To support the family, her mother, Emily Ann née Morse,
became an actress using the stage name Kate Arden and married William
John Holloway, an actor and stage manager in 1877.Jenyns began her
stage career in Leah, the Forsaken at the Theatre Royal in Hobart in
January 1879. Her performance was reviewed as "childlike and natural
as little Leah, and gave promise of future success in parts of this
description". Next, in After Dark, she "surprised everyone by her
natural rendering of Johnny Williams, a 'sidewalk merchant prince'".
At age 18 her Ophelia was described in The Bulletin as "a performance
full of promise... We shall watch this young lady's career with
interest".
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