Bertha Lewis

Bertha Lewis (12 May 1887 – 8 May 1931) was an English opera singer and actress primarily known for her work as principal contralto in the Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

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    “Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
    —“Miss Clark,” U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)

    “Move then with new desires,
    For where we used to build and love
    Is no man’s land, and only ghosts can live
    Between two fires.”
    —Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)