The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Stewart, Miss Nellie

by Philip Mennell

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Stewart, Miss Nellie, youngest daughter of Richard Stewart, the popular comedian of Melbourne and Sydney, and sister of Miss Docy and Miss Maggie Stewart, is a native of Australia. Going on the stage when quite a child, Miss Nellie Stewart has of late years achieved the position of the most successful colonial representative of the chief rôles in light or comic opera. In 1892 she played at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London, sustaining the leading rôle in Blue-eyed Susan. She is married to Mr. Row.