The artist Solomon Carvalho called her “a lady of great worth, and polished manners,” and thought she was a better actress than the famous Julia Dean Hayne. One of the first plays produced at the Social Hall in Salt Lake City, Bulwer-Lytton’s Lady of Lyons, starred Mary Ann Broomhead Wheelock in the role of Pauline, the role in which Carvalho painted her portrait.
Mary Ann Broomhead came from the town of West Bromwich in Staffordshire, ...
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