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- Pauline_Markham abstract "Pauline Markham (May. 1847 – March 20, 1919), was an Anglo-American dancer and contralto singer active on burlesque and vaudeville stages over the latter decades of the 19th century. She began by performing juvenile rôles in Manchester, made her debut on the London stage at 20 and a year later New York, where for a few years she would find phenomenal success before her career settled into a long steady decline. The critic Richard Grant White once described Markham’s singing as vocal velvet and her arms as the lost arms of the Venus de Milo.".