Dancer

Jessie Vokes

English actress

Born 1851Died 1884United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Jessie Vokes
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Jessie Vokes was a dancer, born in 1851, who died in 1884.

Biography

Jessie Vokes (14 June 1848 – 7 August 1884) was a British music hall, pantomime and burlesque actress and dancer of the 19th-century and a member of the Vokes Family of entertainers. For more than ten years they were the central attraction at the annual pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane from 1868 to 1879 when their popularity began to wane.

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Contemporaries

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