Bessie Wentworth (born Elizabeth Mary Andrews, 20 March 1873 – 6 January 1901) was an English music hall singer and comic entertainer.
She was born in Lambeth, London, where her mother ran a boarding house for theatrical performers.
One of her most successful songs was "Looking for a Coon Like Me", written by George Le Brunn with lyrics by John Harrington.
[4] She was portrayed in the costume of a plantation worker in a lithograph by Toulouse-Lautrec, probably from a visit he made to London in 1896.
[1] Known as a keen cyclist, she was planning to marry and run a public house with her husband, but died aged 27, in Lambeth, from typhoid fever.