Olive Logan
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Olive Logan (1839 - 1909) was an American actress and author, daughter of Cornelius Ambrosius Logan. She was born in Elmira, N. Y., and after being educated in Paris and London with a view to the stage, became an actress and subsequently a journalist and lecturer. In 1864 she appeared at Wallack's Theatre in New York City in her own play of Eveleen. She corresponded for many periodicals and wrote, besides plays (including a metrical rendering of Coppée's La Pasant), a dramatization of Wilkie Collins's Armadale, and several books on theatrical matters, such as Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes (1870).
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