1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Achurch, Janet

ACHURCH, JANET [Mrs. C. Charrington] (1864–1916), English actress, was born in Manchester Jan. 17 1864. She married Charles Charrington June 1889. She first appeared at the Olympic theatre, London, Jan. 8 1883, with Genevieve Ward in the farce of Betsy Baker. Two years later she joined Frank Benson’s company and played Shakespearean heroines; but her chief success was gained as Nora Helmer in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, when that play was first produced in England in 1889. She appeared later in other Ibsen plays and in those of Bernard Shaw. She died at Ventnor Sept. 11 1916.