Louise Woodworth Foss

Louisa Woodworth Sanborn Foss (April 19, 1841 in Thetford, Vermont[1] – September 22, 1892 in Malden, Massachusetts[2]) was regarded as the best American elocutionist in her day. Compared to Charlotte Cushman, Foss was counted among the first woman elocutionists in the world.

Louise Woodworth Foss (1873)
Louise Woodworth Foss (1883)

Biography

Louisa Sanborn was a native of Thetford, Vermont. She was educated at Thetford Academy, Vermont.[3]

She became a teacher and subsequently married Eliphalet J. Foss, the Boston photographer. After a few years of home life, she adopted the profession of an elocutionist, studying with Richard Reeve Baxter of Harvard College. Her local reputation as a reader was long known to the literary circles of Boston,[4] where she was affiliated with the Boston Academy of Elocution and Dramatic Arts.[5] By 1883, she had been before the public for five successive seasons, her engagements extending through the principal cities of twenty-two States,[3] and extending from the east coast to the west.[6]

gollark: Can you? I thought it was still outside of available computation ability to just bruteforce it.
gollark: You're just listing the games computers have beat humans at, then?
gollark: The car also has the possibility of weird software bugs, and much less processing power than a human.
gollark: They would have to, well, be safer than humans, for that to work.
gollark: You just throw data at them and train them, and they can sometimes break in bizarre ways, and you have no way to tell why.

References
  1. "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954". FamilySearch. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  2. "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915". FamilySearch. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  3. Hanaford 1883, pp. 562-70.
  4. Kofoid 1887, p. 27.
  5. Richards 1878, p. 11.
  6. Tooker 1873, pp. 206-07.

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