Emmie Owen

Beginning as a child actress, Owen performed for two decades in comic opera and pantomime, mostly in England, before falling ill and dying at the age of 33.

[2] By 1885 she was playing speaking roles in Proof and appeared as Little Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin, and in 1890, in the Prince's pantomime of Aladdin, she was So-Shi.

[1] In 1891, Owen joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company on tour, playing the small role of Cheetah in The Nautch Girl.

She then created the role of Honey-of-Life in Sullivan's last completed opera, The Rose of Persia (1899–1900), before leaving the D'Oyly Carte for the final time.

[2] She returned to playing in pantomime, appearing in the "principal girl" role in Cinderella at the Shakespeare Theatre, Clapham Junction (1900–01).

[2] After this, she toured Australia with the George Musgrove company, in The Scarlet Feather (an English version of Charles Lecocq's La petite mademoiselle) and Dandini in a pantomime of Cinderella.