Jennie Lee
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Jennie Lee (c.1854-1930) was a British actress, singer and dancer.
She made her stage debut in London at an early age and not long afterwards found success in New York and San Francisco. However her career, and indeed her fame, was driven by her performance as the lead in Jo (a melodrama based on Bleak House, written by her husband, John Pringle Burnett).
Lee possibly performed the role for the first time round about 1874, while she was attached to San Francisco's California Theatre, but the real success derived from the play's London debut on 22 February 1876 at the Globe Theatre in Newcastle Street.
