Maywood, Augusta

Maywood, Augusta (1825, New York; 3 November 1876; 3 November 1876, Lvov), ballerina, was the daughter of the manger of the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and she began her study of ballet in this city at the dancing school run by M. and Mme Paul Hazard . She made her stage debut in 1837 in an English adaptation of Le Dieu et la Bayadère entitled The Maid of Cashmere , and she went on to fill an engagement at the Park Theatre in New York in an American adaptation of La Sylphide. Her…