Augusta Maywood

Augusta Maywood (born 1825, probably New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 3, 1876, Lwów, Pol., Austrian Empire [now Lviv, Ukraine]) was the first American ballerina to achieve international renown. Augusta Williams was the daughter of itinerant English actors. She acquired the name of her stepfather, the theatrical manager Robert Campbell Maywood, when she was three. She began studying ballet under Paul H. Hazard in 1836, and in 1837 she made her public debut in The Maid...