Madge Kendal

Dame Madge Kendal DBE was an English actress of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, best known for her roles in Shakespeare and English comedies. Together with her husband, W. H. Kendal, she became an important theatre manager.

Kendal was born in Cleethorpes, reportedly the youngest ofchildren of Margharetta Elisabetta Robertson , a native of Denmark, and her English husband, William Robertson , who joined his wifes family of actors and became their manager in 1830. One of Kendals brothers was T.W. Robertson, a dramatist who led the movement toward naturalistic acting and design in theatre. One of her sisters, Fanny Robertson, was also an actress. Kendal was homeschooled by a governess and her father, who read Shakespeare to her from an early age.

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