Isabel Bateman (December 28, 1854 – 1934)Isabel Bateman; findagrave memorial
/ref> was an American-British actress. She was born near

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on December 28, 1854. The daughter of the actors H. L. Bateman and

Sidney Frances Bateman Sidney Frances (Cowell) Bateman (March 29, 1823 – January 13, 1881) was an American actor, playwright, and theatrical manager who spent much of her career on the American stage. Biography Sidney Frances Cowell was the daughter of Joseph Cowe ...

, her sisters were actresses

Kate Josephine Bateman Kate Josephine Bateman Crowe (October 7, 1842 – April 8, 1917) was an American actress. She started out as a child actor and later developed a career in romantic leading parts. Early life and childhood acting Kate Josephine Bateman was born in ...

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 Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility ( ...

for six years. She was very successful in many leading roles in London. She left the theatre in 1898 and entered the Anglican

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in Wantage, eventually becoming

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of the Order.Gayle T. Harris
Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman
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, accessed 26 April 2019

Gallery

File:Isabel Bateman and Henry Irving.jpg, Bateman as Desdemona and Irving as Othello at the

Lyceum Theatre, London The Lyceum Theatre ( ) is a West End theatre located in the City of Westminster, on Wellington Street, just off the Strand in central London. It has a seating capacity of 2,100. The origins of the theatre date to 1765. Managed by Samuel Arnold ...

File:Isabel Bateman in the Character of Queen Henrietta Maria, 1874.png, Bateman as

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, 1874 File:Isabel Bateman.jpg, Bateman, by Julia Margaret Cameron, photographed at

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, 1874 File:Isabel Bateman, She Walks in Beauty , 1874.jpg, Bateman, by Julia Margaret Cameron, ''She Walks in Beauty'', 1874

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* {{UK-stage-actor-stub 1854 births 1934 deaths 19th-century American actresses American stage actresses Actors from Cincinnati Anglican nuns Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century American emigrants to the United Kingdom 19th-century British actresses British stage actresses