Ada Ward

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Ada Ward was an English actress and singer who became a star in Australia in the 1870s,{{cite news |title=New York |work=Chicago Daily Tribune |date=5 May 1878 }} and later worked in the United States.{{cite book |title=Bohemia |author=Mahlstick |year=1883 |publisher=Metropolitan Printing Co. }} She caused a sensation in 1897 by leaving the stage and joining the Salvation Army as a preacher{{cite news |title=Miss Ada Ward: An Actress at the Penitent fdorm |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3648963 |work=The Brisbane Courier |date=13 April 1897 |accessdate=23 May 2009 }} and going on to work in the slums of London.{{cite news |title=A Pretty Actress Renounces the Stage Forever |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/325724092.html?dids=325724092:325724092&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Mar+03%2C+1897&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=SHE+JOINED+THE+ARMY.&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020200223/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/325724092.html?dids=325724092:325724092&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Mar+03,+1897&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=SHE+JOINED+THE+ARMY.&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 October 2012 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=3 March 1897 |accessdate=23 May 2009 }}