This feature on Sarah Booth appeared in the April 1812 issue of The Lady’s Monthly Museum.
Born in 1793 in Birmingham, she was discovered in Manchester as a dancer in 1804. After several successful Manchurian productions, she moved to Doncaster and then to London. Her first London performance was in 1810 in a burletta with Elliston. She, later that year, debuted at the Royal Opera House in a play titled Child of Nature.
Booth would become a frequent performer at Covent Garden until her retirement in the 1830s.
She was described as “small in stature, nervous, with hair inclining to red”, which led her to being often cast as a young woman.
