her, the USS Ada Rehan. Roles Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing Rosalind in As You Like It Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew Viola in Twelfth Night Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal Valentine Osprey in The Railroad of Love Peggy in The Country Girl Kate Verity in The Squire Nancy Brasher in Nancy and Company Maid Marian in Tennyson's Foresters Roxanne in Daly's presentation of Cyrano de Bergerac Portia in The Merchant of Venice She also played the principal female characters in: Cinderella at School Needles and Pins A Wooden Spoon After Business Hours Our English Friend References Further reading William Winter, Ada Rehan: A Study (limited edition, New York, 1891) William Winter, Shadows of the Stage (New York, 1892) L. C. Strang, Famous Actresses of the Day in America (Boston, 1899) Norman Hapgood, The Stage in America, 1897–1900 (New York, 1901) William Winter, The Wallet of Time, volume ii (New York, 1913) External links Ada Rehan at Find-a-Grave Ada Rehan photo gallery at NYPL North American Theatre Online Ada Rehan, as Lady Teazle from The School for Scandal, cover of The Theatre magazine April 1904 Liberty ship Ada Rehan......ship's portrait Ada Rehan: Broadway Photographs(Univ. of South Carolina) Finding aid to the Ada Rehan papers at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries Heroines of the Modern Stage p. 203 by Forrest Izard c.1915 1850s births 1916 deaths 19th-century American actresses 20th-century American actresses Actresses from New York City American stage actresses Deaths from cancer in New York (state) Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)