PC_Edwardian Actors-Miriam ClementsDN

PC_Edwardian Actors-Miriam ClementsDN

Non-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - Miriam Clements

Miriam Clements (1869-1954), married name Mrs. Cecil Ainsley Walker-Leigh, made her stage debut in 1893 in Dion Boucicault's The Octaroon at the Theatre Royal in Margate, England. In that same venue she played Juliet in 1893. Her next Shakespeare part was in London at Her Majesty's Theatre where she played Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1900. Her last recorded performance in a play by Shakespeare was as Hero in Much Ado About Nothing at His Majesty's Theatre, London, in 1905.