Thank you so much to the SSEMWG, and many congratulations to the winner, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's writing, and to our fellow Honorable Mention, The Four Books by Alice Thornton! ✨

Read about the other projects at the link below! ⤵️
www.ssemwg.org/2025

This batch also helped us grow our number of records for performances in Philadelphia, while also helping us expand into St. Louis. You can see this growth on our interactive map of historic theatres. ✨🎩

In this performance, Ellen and Kate Bateman played Richard and Richmond, respectively, while Julia Jones played Prince Edward and Miss Schoolcraft played the Duke of York. The Bateman sisters were famous for playing these roles as young girls, with prints like these capturing their performances.

This batch included our first performances in St. Louis, Missouri, with one production even having four performances of genderfluidity at once! On October 15, 1850, the St. Louis Theatre had a production of Richard III, with Richard, Richmond, and the two princes all being played by girls or women.

In this batch of records were our first breeches performances in Othello. In February 1863, an actress by the name of Miss Miller played a page in Othello at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. While other tragedies have often seen breeches performances, Othello almost never has.

Among these performances was our first record for a performance in Love's Labor's Lost! ✨ On January 6, 1862, Mrs. Charles Henri played Moth (also known as Mote) in Love's Labor's Lost at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia. 🎩

From this trip, she has been able to gather 237 records for performances in Philadelphia, and another 31 records for performances in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, DC! ✨

She is now in the process of cleaning up these records and getting them ready to add to our database site! 🎩