Lotty Hough
Charlotte Hough[pronunciation?] (c. 1833 – January 17, 1896), known as Lotty Hough, sometimes spelled Lottie Hough, was a 19th-century actress and comedian. She played roles for the companies of Laura Keene and Mrs. John Wood.[1][2]
She debuted in New York at the Bowery Theatre in The Stranger as Charlotte Hough. She also acted in London.[3] Around 1871 she gave a lecture tour on "Popping The Question".[4]
During the U.S. Civil War, she was involved in obtaining passes to get cotton through Union lines.[5]
T. Allston Brown's History of the American Stage (1870) described Hough as a "well known impersonator of Yankee characters" with "considerable talent."[6]
Selected performances (incomplete)[edit]
- The Seven Sisters (1860 in New York) (also performed in productions elsewhere)
- Seven Sons (1861) (New York)
- The Serious Family (1862, Washington D.C.)
- Yankee Legacy as Mehitable Ann (1863, New York)[7]
References[edit]
- ^ (9 September 1861). Amusements, The New York Times
- ^ (4 December 1862). Return of A Popular Actress, Daily National Republican, p. 2, col. 5
- ^ A History of the New York Stage, Vol. I, p. 128 (1903)
- ^ (22 November 1871). The Great Question of the Day (advertisement), Boston Evening Transcript
- ^ Furgurson, Ernest B. Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War, p. 209 (2004)
- ^ Brown, T. Allston. History of the American Stage, p. 185 (1870)
- ^ (16 December 1863). Amusements, The New York Times
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