Edwina Booth Grossman
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{{Infobox person
| image = Edwina Booth by Eastman Johnson.png
| caption = Oil portrait of Edwina Booth Grossman by Eastman Johnson, 1885
| birth_name = Edwina Booth
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|12|09}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1938|12|26|1861|12|09}}
| notable_works = Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossman, and Letters to Her and to His Friends (1894)
| spouse = {{marriage|Ignatius R. Grossman|1885}}
| children = 2
| relatives = {{plainlist|
- Edwin Booth (father)
- John Wilkes Booth (uncle)
- Junius Brutus Booth Jr. (uncle)
- Asia Booth Clarke (aunt)
- Junius Brutus Booth (grandfather)}}
| family = Booth family
}}
{{Short description|American writer (1861-1938)}}{{About|the 19th-century writer|the 20th-century actress|Edwina Booth}}
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.
Early life and education
Grossman was born Edwina Booth on December 9, 1861.{{Cite web |title=Edwina Booth, 1885 (Hills no. 31.3.6) {{!}} Catalogue entry {{!}} Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné |url=https://www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=719 |access-date=May 24, 2023 |website=www.eastmanjohnson.org}}{{Cite web |title=Booth, Mary Devlin, 1840-1863 - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/view/23059260 |access-date=May 24, 2023 |website=snaccooperative.org}}
File:Edwin Booth with daughter Edwina.jpg, ca. 1864.]]
Members of the prominent Booth family, Grossman's parents, Edwin Booth and Mary Devlin Booth, were well-known Shakespearian actors.{{Cite web |title=archives.nypl.org -- Booth-Grossman family papers |url=https://archives.nypl.org/the/21475 |access-date=May 24, 2023 |website=archives.nypl.org}} Grossman's paternal grandfather was Junius Brutus Booth and John Wilkes Booth was her paternal uncle. Mary Devlin Booth died in 1863, when Grossman was two years old. Edwin Booth married actress Mary McVicker in 1869.{{Cite web |date=September 11, 2014 |title=The Edwin Booth Family Collection |url=https://library.csun.edu/SCA/Peek-in-the-Stacks/EdwinBooth |access-date=May 24, 2023 |website=CSUN University Library |language=en}}
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. The volume was titled Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossman, and Letters to Her and to His Friends.{{Cite book |last1=Booth |first1=Edwin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VbOAAAAMAAJ |title=Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends |last2=Grossman |first2=Edwina Booth |date=1894 |publisher=Century |language=en}} As the title suggests, the book describes Grossman's memories of her father and contains edited transcripts of letters written by him.
Private life
On May 16, 1885, Edwina Booth married banker Ignatius R. Grossman (sometimes spelled "Crossman").{{Cite news |date=May 17, 1885 |title=MARRIAGE OF EDWINA BOOTH. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1885/05/17/archives/marriage-of-edwina-booth.html |access-date=May 24, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=Person Information {{!}} Seward Family Digital Archive |url=https://sewardproject.org/person-public-fields/157 |access-date=May 24, 2023 |website=sewardproject.org}} The couple had two children, Clarence Edwin Booth Grossman, who became an artist, and Mildred Booth Grossman. Grossman's granddaughter, Edwina Booth Waterbury, eventually married actor Richard H. Cutting.
Grossman was reportedly at her father's side at the time of his death in June 1893.{{Cite news |last=Bleyer |first=Jennifer |date=February 11, 2007 |title=A Finale, Frozen in Time |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/nyregion/thecity/11boot.html |access-date=May 24, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}
References
External links
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