Early Life and Career
Markham (née Margaret Hall or Hale) was born in England and began her acting career at an early age playing principle boy parts at the Princess Theatre, Manchester. She made her London debut, not too many years later, on November 15, 1867 at the Queen's Theatre in Wigan’s The First Night playing Rose, the would be debutant. In late June, 1868 she appeared at the Queen’s Theatre in another Wigan play, Time and the Hour, of which one London critic said, “It is by no means good, and by no means bad.”
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