Edwina Booth Grossman
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December 9, 1861
Edwina Booth Grossman | |
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 Oil portrait of Edwina Booth Grossman by Eastman Johnson, 1885 | |
| Born | Edwina Booth December 9, 1861 |
| Died | December 26, 1938 (aged 77) |
| Notable work | Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossman, and Letters to Her and to His Friends (1894) |
| Spouse |
Ignatius R. Grossman
(m. 1885) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives |
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| Family | Booth family |
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 Wilkes Booth.
Grossman was born Edwina Booth on December 9, 1861.[1][2]
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Members of the prominent Booth family, Grossman's parents, Edwin Booth and Mary Devlin Booth, were well-known Shakespearian actors.[2][3] Grossman's paternal grandfather was Junius Brutus Booth and John Wilkes Booth was her paternal uncle.[2][3] Mary Devlin Booth died in 1863, when Grossman was two years old. Edwin Booth married actress Mary McVicker in 1869.[4]
Career
In 1894, Grossman published a book about her father, Edwin Booth, reportedly concerned that his legacy as an actor would be marred by his brother's assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.[2] The volume was titled Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossman, and Letters to Her and to His Friends.[5] As the title suggests, the book describes Grossman's memories of her father and contains edited transcripts of letters written by him.[5][3]
