Maggie Cline
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Maggie Cline (January 1, 1857 – June 11, 1934) was an American vaudeville singer, active across the United States in the late nineteenth century, known as "The Irish Queen" and "The Bowery Brunhilde".[1]
Cline was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on January 1, 1857. Her parents were Irish immigrants. After working in a shoe factory as a child, she left home for Boston at a teenager where she began her career performing at the Boylston Museum for six dollars a week; a sum much larger than what she had made at the shoe factory.[2] She eventually joined a burlesque troupe, Snellbaker & Benson's Majestics. She married John Ryan, the owner of a café, in 1888. After a long career, she retired from the stage in 1917. She died in Fair Haven, New Jersey, on June 11, 1934.[3]
