Virginia Harned was born at Boston, and, at the age of sixteen, made
her début as Lady Despar, in The Corsican Brothers. She first played
in New York city in 1890 at the Fourteenth street theater in a play
entitled “A Long Lane or Green Meadow.” In this play she made so good
an impression that she was engaged by Daniel Frohman as leading woman
for E. A. Sothern. In 1896 she was married to Mr. Sothern and has since
appeared in leading parts in his company. Probably her greatest success
was in the creation of the title rôle of Trilby.