Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter, and poet (died 1868)

Adah Isaacs Menken

American actress, dancer, painter, and poet (1835–1868)

Adah Isaacs Menken was an American actress, painter and poet, and was the highest earning actress of her time. She was best known for her performance in the hippodrama Mazeppa, with a climax that featured her apparently nude and riding a horse on stage. After great success for a…