# Mary Mannering
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{{Short description|British actress}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2018}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Mary Mannering
| image = Mary Mannering (Schloss photo).jpeg
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| birth_name = Florence Friend
| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|04|29}}
| birth_place = [London, England](/source/London%2C_England)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1953|01|21|1876|04|29}}
| occupation = Actress
| years_active =
| spouse = [James Keteltas Hackett](/source/James_Keteltas_Hackett) (1897-1910;div.)
Frederick E. Wadsworth 1911-1927; his death
| children = 1
}}
'''Mary Mannering''' (born '''Florence Friend;''' April 29, 1876 – January 21, 1953) was an English actress. She studied for the stage under [Hermann Vezin](/source/Hermann_Vezin). She made her debut at [Manchester](/source/Manchester) in 1892 under her own name of Florence Friend.
==Biography==
Born Clara Friend, she was the daughter of Richard Friend and Eliza Whiting. Her family moved to follow her father's job in the building trade. During her teens she began to perform on the stage (She adopted the name Florence for this purpose).[{{cite journal |last1=Newspaper |first1=Reynolds |title="Queen's Palace of Varieties", Poplar |journal=Reynolds Newspaper |date=16 November 1884 |page=4 |url=https://search.findmypast.co.uk/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2f0000101%2f18841116%2f016&stringtohighlight=%22florence%20friend%22}}] She worked as a dressmaker during these years, until at least 1891. In her early 20s she was induced by a producer [Daniel Frohman](/source/Daniel_Frohman) to come to New York in 1896. In the United States, she began playing as "Mary Mannering" (the maiden name of her father's mother).
Mannering's American debut, in the title role in [Henry V. Esmond](/source/Henry_V._Esmond)'s ''The Courtship of Leonie'', was at Daniel Frohman's original [Lyceum Theatre](/source/Lyceum_Theatre_(New_York%2C_1885-1902)) on December 1, 1896. Other plays with the Lyceum company included [Sydney Grundy](/source/Sydney_Grundy)'s ''The Late Mr. Castello'' on December 14, 1896, [Frances Hodgson Burnett](/source/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett) and George Fleming's ''The First Gentleman of Europe'', [Louis N. Parker](/source/Louis_N._Parker)'s ''The Mayflower'', and [Arthur Wing Pinero](/source/Arthur_Wing_Pinero)'s ''[The Princess and the Butterfly](/source/The_Princess_and_the_Butterfly)'' (all 1897), ''The Tree of Knowledge'' by R.C. Carton, ''[Trelawny of the 'Wells'](/source/Trelawny_of_the_'Wells')'' by Pinero (both 1898), ''Americans at Home'' by Grace Livingstone Furniss (1899), and ''John Ingerfield'' by [Jerome K. Jerome](/source/Jerome_K._Jerome) (1900).[Brown, ''History of the New York Stage'', pp. 424-440.] In 1900 Mannering starred at [Buffalo, N. Y.](/source/Buffalo%2C_New_York) and then in the Broadway debut of ''Janice Meredith'', in the title role opposite [Robert Drouet](/source/Robert_Drouet) who played Colonel Jack Brereton in the four-act play based on a novel of the same name by [Paul Leicester Ford](/source/Paul_Leicester_Ford). Thereafter, she played leading parts in ''White Roses'' (New York, 1901); ''[The Truants](/source/The_Truants_(play))'' (Washington, 1909); ''[The Independent Miss Gower](/source/The_Independent_Miss_Gower)'' (Chicago, 1909); ''A Man's World'' and ''[The Garden of Allah](/source/The_Garden_of_Allah_(play))'' (New York, 1911).
==Personal life==
She married James K. Hackett, the Lyceum company's leading actor, on May 2, 1897, though the marriage was not announced until January 1898. They had a daughter, Elise, in 1904.["Famous Families...The Hacketts", pp. 13-16.][[http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=nel7&id=I1922 Elise Mannering Keteltas Hackett profile (November 16, 1904 - December 18, 1974)], ancestry.com; retrieved April 12, 2015.]
==References==
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==Publications==
*Blum, Daniel C., ''Great Stars of the American Stage'' #Profile 9, c.1952(second printing 1954)
*[Brown, Thomas Allston](/source/T._Allston_Brown), ''A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901, Volume III'', New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903.
*Moses, Montrose J., "Famous Families of American Players: No. 3 - The Hacketts", ''The Theatre Magazine'', v.V n.47, January 1905, pp. 13–16.
*[William Winter](/source/William_Winter_(author)), ''[The Wallet of Time](/source/The_Wallet_of_Time)'', (two volumes, New York, 1913)
==External links==
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*[https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=mary+mannering Mary Mannering] photo section at NYP Library
*[http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/search/collection/sayre/searchterm/mary%20mannering/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/cosuppress/ Mary Mannering] portraits; University of Washington, Sayre collection
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120320072508/http://www.periodpaper.com/index.php/1910-mary-mannering-stage-actress-will-bradley-print PeriodPaper; Mary Mannering]
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