Phoebe Ellen Carlo (30 May 1874 – 23 July 1941) was an English actress of the late Victorian era. She is most notable for playing Alice in the musical Alice in Wonderland (1886), making her the first actress to play the titular character in a professional production of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865),[1][2] having been personally selected by the author for the role.[3]
- ^ Foulkes, Richard Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life, Routledge (2005) Google Books
- ^ Cast of Alice in Wonderland (1886), The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
- ^ Gänzl, Kurt The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, Blackwell/Schirmer (1994), Vol. 1, p. 301