Rosa Cooper

Rosa Cooper (1829 – 4 September 1877) was an English actor and manager, popular in Australia.

History

Cooper was married to actor Lionel Harding.[1]

They first appeared on the Australian stage in December 1863 in the drama Catherine Howard; or, the Throne, the Tomb, and the Scaffold, with Cooper as Howard, betrothed and secretly married to Percy, Duke of Northumberland, played by Harding.[2]

She was particularly noted for her Lady Isabel in a stage version of East Lynne.[3]

She had been ailing when she left Australia by the RMSS Pera in 1875,[4] and died in India[5] shortly after being released from hospital.

References
  1. "Music and the Drama". Australian Town and Country Journal. Vol. XIX, no. 469. New South Wales, Australia. 4 January 1879. p. 15. Retrieved 24 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Lyceum Theatre". Bendigo Advertiser. Vol. X, no. 2665. Victoria, Australia. 9 December 1863. p. 2. Retrieved 24 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Theatre Royal Adelaide". The Australasian. Vol. XXIII, no. 606. Victoria, Australia. 10 November 1877. p. 17. Retrieved 24 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "The Stage". The Weekly Times (Melbourne). No. 310. Victoria, Australia. 14 August 1875. p. 9. Retrieved 24 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Cooper, Rosa". AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
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