Bessie Bonehill
Bessie Bonehill was an English vaudeville singer, comic entertainer and male impersonator. She toured widely in the United States in the 1890s, becoming one of the most famous and wealthy entertainers of her day.
She was born into a poor family in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England. Official records give her birth name as Betsey Bonehill. She appeared in the 1860s as a double act with her sister Marion. After cropping her hair, she became well known as a principal boy actor in local pantomimes, before moving to London and appearing as a male impersonator and performer of coster songs in theatres in the 1870s and 1880s. Many of her songs were written by Arthur West, a friend of Charlie Chaplin. In 1877 she married Louis Abrahams, and had two daughters and a son with him.
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