*SCANDALOUS VICTORIAN ACTRESS CORA POTTER RARE 1904 HANDBILL*

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Like Lillie Langtry and Mrs. Leslie Carter, she was a well off society woman who, after divorce, turned to the stage and had an outstanding theatrical career. A rare original January 1904 London handbill for Cora Uquhart Brown Potter in "The Pledge of a Britisher." Dimensions six and a half by four and a half inches. Edgewear with loss at top and small tears otherwise good. See Cora brown Potter's extraordinary biography below.
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From Wikipedia:
Mary Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter
(May 15, 1857 – February 12, 1936) was one of the first American society women to become a stage actress.
Mary Cora Urquhart was born on May 15, 1857 in New Orleans,
[2]
the eldest of three daughters and a son raised by David and Augusta (née Slocomb) Urquhart.
[3]
Her father was a merchant and her mother the daughter of a hardware merchant.
[4]
She married financier James Brown Potter of
Brown Bros. & Co.
, the son of
Howard Cranston Potter
in 1877 in
New Orleans
and they had a daughter, Anne, in 1879.
[5]
They visited England in 1886 where they met the
Prince of Wales
and were subsequently invited to spend the weekend with him. James returned to the United States alone following the visit as Cora remained in England to pursue a career on stage. She made her stage debut in 1887 at the
Theatre Royal
in
Brighton
in the play
Civil War
. Later that year she started a successful partnership with
Harold Kyrle Bellew
at the
Fifth Avenue Theatre
in the New York production of
Civil War
.
[1]
She and Bellew toured the world and starred together for the next ten years.
[1]
Cora Urquhart Potter (1895)
In 1889, she played the role of Cleopatra and launched "a mania for Egyptian styles."
[6]
She divorced Potter on June 4, 1900.
[7]
Her ex-husband would remarry in 1904.
[5]
She continued to use her married name as her stage name. In 1905 she produced and performed the first play of her sister
Georgie Raoul-Duval
.
Her last appearance on the London stage was in 1912. She made a further stage appearance in 1919 for a benefit production in
Guernsey
. In addition to her stage career she helped to raise money for war charities during the
Second Boer War
.
[1]
Death
She died on February 12, 1936, aged 78.