Jennie O'Neill Potter

Jennie O'Neill Potter
B&W portrait photo of a young woman with short hair looking upwards.
Portrait photo from A Woman of the Century
Born
Jennie O'Neill or Jennie O'Neil

1867
Patch Grove, Wisconsin, U.S.
DiedApril 17, 1900
New York City
Occupations
  • actor
  • dramatic reader
Spouse
Charles W. Potter
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(m. 1880)​

Jennie O'Neill Potter (1867–1900) was an American actor and dramatic reader.[1] King Edward VII, then the Prince of Wales, called Potter "the queen of dialect readers".[2]

  1. ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "POTTER, Miss. Jennie O'Neill". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 585–86. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Diehl, pp. 45–46