Maxine Elliott
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Maxine Elliott, also known as Little Jessie, Dettie, or by her birth name Jessie Dermot, was an American actress and businesswoman. She managed her own theater and experimented with silent films in th
Maxine Elliott, c. 1905, by Burr McIntosh
Maxine Elliott story on the front page of September 3, 1915, The Seattle Star
Diana Forbes-Robertson
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Diana Forbes-Robertson was a British writer.
Maxine Elliott
…By age 15 in 1883, Jessie had been seduced and made pregnant by a 25-year-old man whom she may have married underage, according to the biography by Diana Forbes-Robertson, her niece. She either miscarried or lost the baby. This incident left a psychological wound on her for the rest of her life. Eliott later developed a…
Forbes-Robertson c. 1941