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Alice Atherton began as a child performer in her native Cincinatti and met the English actor and comedian Willie Edouin in the USA and married him in 1873 .  They became mainstays of the Coville burlesque companies, and Edouin organized the entertainment <i>Dreams, or Fun in the Photograph Gallery</i> to show Alice Atherton's genius for impersonation. She was also a show--stopping comic singer, a virtuoso whistler, and a versatile actress whose 'laughing song' became a signature piece. The couple moved to England in 1883 where Atherton spent the majority of the final decade and a half of her career in music halls, as well as visiting America where she appeared in vaudeville.  The Edouins had two daughters, May (b.18 February 1875) and Daisy (born 30 September 1876).\r\n \r\nThis photograph comes from a large collection of ‘cartes de visite’ and ‘cabinet cards’ removed from their backings and mounted in albums by Guy Tristram Little (d.1953) who bequeathed them to the V&A.  A collector of greetings cards, games and photographs, Guy Little was a partner in the legal firm Messrs Milles Jennings White & Foster, and the solicitor and executor of Mrs. Gabrielle Enthoven, whose theatrical collection formed the basis of the Theatre Collections at the V&A.","physicalDescription":"Sepia photograph of Alice Atherton (Mrs. W. 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