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Jennie Lee (stage actress)
Jennie Lee (c. 1854〔Birth year based on a 1904 article in which Lee stated she was fourteen when her father died, about a year and a half prior to her stage debut in the fall of 1869.〕〔In the Days of My Youth. ''London Mainly About People'', October 1, 1904, pp. 380–381〕 – 3 May 1930), was an Victorian Era English stage actress, singer and dancer whose career was largely entwined with the title role in ''Jo'', a melodrama〔Also known as ''Poor Jo'', ''Joe'' or ''Bleak House''.〕 her husband, John Pringle Burnett,〔usually billed as J. P. Burnett)〕 wove around a relatively minor character from the Charles Dickens novel, ''Bleak House''. She made her stage debut in London at an early age and found success in New York and San Francisco not long afterwards. Lee may have first starred in ''Jo'' around 1874 during her tenure at San Francisco's California Theatre, but her real success came with the play's London debut on 22 February 1876 at the Globe Theatre in Newcastle Street. ''Jo'' ran for many months at the Globe and other London venues before embarking for several seasons on tours of the British Isles, a return to North America, tours of Australia and New Zealand and later revivals in Britain. Reduced circumstances over her final years forced Lee to seek assistance from an actor's pension fund subsidized in part by proceeds from Royal Command Performances.〔(Pascoe, Charles Eyre (editor). ''The Dramatic List: A Record of the Principal Performances of Living Actors of the British Stage,'' 1879, p. 228 ) Retrieved January 4, 2014〕〔Jennie Lee Dead; Won Fame on Stage. ''New York Times,'' May 4, 1930, p. 30〕
==Early life and career==
Emily Lee was born in London, the daughter of Edwin George Lee, an artist of some note who worked in the mediums of watercolour, etching and wood art. Her father counted among his friends the writer Charles Dickens and artist John Everett Millais. Lee would sometimes accompany her father to the latter's studio where, on occasion. she would sit for the artist; as did her maternal aunt, Anne Ryan, the young woman depicted in his painting, A Huguenot.〔
Lee was raised in a large household that included seven siblings and her father's younger brothers, whom she liked to call "her three wicked uncles." Lee once described her father as austere and that what fun she found as a child often occurred surreptitiously or while he was away on one of his frequent painting excursion. Often during these absences she would sneak into her father's library to read books normally forbidden to her or organize family plays with the help of her three uncles.〔
In the fall of 1869, some eighteen months after her father's death, Lee made her stage debut at London's Lyceum Theatre as one of the twelve pages in ''Chilpéric'', an opéra bouffe with libretto and music by Hervé. At the same venue later in 1870, Lee was a crossing sweeper in Hervé's operetta, ''Le Petit Faust,'' and in July 1870 at the Royal Strand Theatre she played Prince Ahmed in Henry James Byron's romance, ''The Pilgrim of Love.''〔〔(We Are Amused Exhibit Labels and Images - University of Illinois ) Retrieved January 24, 2014〕
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