Fanny Josephs

In 1877, she starred in one of the most successful plays of the day, The Pink Dominos, at the Criterion Theatre alongside Charles Wyndham.

[1] Her father held a position at a theatre in Dublin, and under his tutorage she appeared on stage from an early age.

[2] In October 1866 on the opening night of the Holborn Theatre, under Sefton Parry's management, she was in the original production of The Flying Scud by Dion Boucicault.

In 1868 she became manager of the theatre, and on the opening night presented The Post Boy by H. T. Craven and The White Fawn by F. C. Burnand.

[3] In the summer of 1879 she became lessee and manager of the Olympic Theatre; the opening play, The Worship of Bacchus by Paul Meritt and Henry Pettitt, was not successful.