Mary Shaw (actress)

Mary Shaw in The Revelation directed by Martin and Emery

Mary Shaw (1854–May 18,1929) was an American suffragette, early feminist, playwright and actress.

Shaw was involved in the women's movement since the early 1890s, and in 1892 she became a member of the Professional Women's League. She played many controversial roles in her career as an actress, and was involved in some of the most controversial plays of her time such as Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and Hedda Gabler, George Bernard Shaw's (no relation) Mrs. Warren's Profession and many female suffrage plays.

Shaw married Henry Leach in 1879 and he died two and a half years later.^[1] She was the mother of Broadway actor Arthur Shaw (1881-1946).

References

1. Irving, John D. (1982). Mary Shaw, Actress, Suffragist, Activist (1854-1929). New York: Arno Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-405-14089-1.

External links

• Mary Shaw at Internet Broadway Database
• book on Mary Shaw, Google Books
• New York Times ACTRESSES TO HAVE A CLUB.;They Are Displeased, It Is Said, with the P.W.L. Management ...(Thursday May 15, 1913)
• Mary Shaw as a young woman at NY Public Library Billy Rose collection
• Mary Shaw portrait Univ. of Washington Sayre Collection