Elisabeth Marbury

Elisabeth Bessie Marbury was a pioneering American theatrical and literary agent and producer who represented prominent theatrical performers and writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and helped shape business methods of the modern commercial theater. She was the longtime companion of Elsie de Wolfe , a prominent socialite and famous interior decorator.

Bessie Marbury was born and raised in the affluent and cultured home of one of 19th century New Yorks oldest and most prominent society families. She was reputedly a descendant of Calvinist Anne Hutchinson , who cofounded Rhode Island after her banishment from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Bessie Marbury both used and defied these connections during the Victorian era to establish herself as an important literary and theatrical talent agent and theatrical producer, helping to define and create these very professions as they emerged in the new world of mass production, advertising and popular culture in postCivil War American society.

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