Florence Adelaide Fowle Adams (October 15, 1863 – July 31, 1916) was an American dramatic reader, actor, author, and teacher.

Florence Adelaide Fowle Adams
Florence Adelaide Fowle Adams
Born
Florence Adelaide Fowle

October 15, 1863
DiedJuly 31, 1916(1916-07-31) (aged 52)
Pierce, Washington, US
EducationGirls' Latin School
Alma materBoston School of Oratory
Occupation(s)dramatic reader and teacher
Spouse
George E. Adams
(m. 1888)

Biography

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She was born Florence Adelaide Fowle in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the only child of the artist Edward Augustus Fowle.[1] She attended the Chelsea public school, the Girls' Latin School in Boston, and the Boston School of Oratory, from which she graduated in 1884.[2]

Fowle joined the faculty of the Boston School of Oratory, where she taught the Delsarte method of dramatic expression developed by the teacher François Delsarte. Feeling the lack of a textbook for beginning students that clearly set forth the principles of the Delsarte method, she published her own book on the Delsarte method, Gestures and Pantomimic Action (1891), using herself as the model for the volume's many illustrations.[2]

She occasionally appeared on stage in dramatic roles; for example, as Julie de Mortemar in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's play Richelieu.[1] She also organized her own company of young women for staging tableaux vivants, the Boston Ideal Tableaux Company.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c F. W. C. "Mrs. Florence A. Fowle Adams". The Opera Glass, vols. 1-3, pp. 188-89.
  2. ^ a b Willard, Frances E., and Mary A. Livermore, eds. A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Moulton, 1893, pp. 5-6.
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