Jump to content

Lotty Hough

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Photograph of Mrs. Lottie Hough, Jan. 22nd, 1864 [1]


Charlotte Hough[pronunciation?] (c. 1833 – January 17, 1896), known as Lotty Hough, sometimes spelled Lottie Hough, was a 19th-century actress and comedian. She played roles for the companies of Laura Keene and Mrs. John Wood.[2][3]

She debuted in New York at the Bowery Theatre in The Stranger as Charlotte Hough. She also acted in London.[4] Around 1871 she gave a lecture tour on "Popping The Question".[5]

During the U.S. Civil War, she was involved in obtaining passes to get cotton through Union lines.[6]

T. Allston Brown's History of the American Stage (1870) described Hough as a "well known impersonator of Yankee characters" with "considerable talent."[7]

Selected performances (incomplete)

[edit]
  • The Seven Sisters (1860 in New York) (also performed in productions elsewhere)
  • Seven Sons (1861) (New York)
  • The Serious Family (1862, Washington D.C.)
  • Yankee Legacy as Mehitable Ann (1863, New York)[8]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections".
  2. ^ (9 September 1861). Amusements, The New York Times
  3. ^ (4 December 1862). Return of A Popular Actress, Daily National Republican, p. 2, col. 5
  4. ^ A History of the New York Stage, Vol. I, p. 128 (1903)
  5. ^ (22 November 1871). The Great Question of the Day (advertisement), Boston Evening Transcript
  6. ^ Furgurson, Ernest B. Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War, p. 209 (2004)
  7. ^ Brown, T. Allston. History of the American Stage, p. 185 (1870)
  8. ^ (16 December 1863). Amusements, The New York Times