Alexandra Carlisle

Born in 1886 at Hackney, Middlesex, Carlisle was the daughter of Henry Swift, a schoolmaster, and his wife Alexandra.

[3] Also in 1908, she appeared in two Shakespeare productions by Herbert Beerbohm Tree: as Olivia in Twelfth Night and as Portia in The Merchant of Venice.

[10] At the Republican National Convention of 1920, she was the main speaker for Massachusetts and seconded the nomination of Calvin Coolidge as the party's candidate for vice president.

[11][12] In 1926, Carlisle directed a production of The Tragedy of Nan at Chicago's Goodman Theatre that ran from 25 March to 10 April.

[14] She died of a heart attack on 21 April 1936 in the Hotel Astor in New York City,[15] and was buried in Shawsheen Cemetery.