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Edith Wynne Mathison as Andromache, 1917.
Edith Wynne Mathison as Andromache in the Granville Barker/Lillah McCarthy production of The Trojan Women, 1917. The play was considered such a strong pacifist statement that copies of Gilbert Murray’s translation were distributed by Jane Adams’ Women’s Peace Party. Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts