“I have never encountered a face more variable. At one moment I would think her beautiful. The next instant a quick turn of the head would give me a different view of the face and I would say to myself, ‘She is plain’; then she would speak, and that beautiful musical _mezzo_, so uncommon to American ears, and from which a Boston man once emotionally declared ‘feeling could be positively wrung, so over-saturated was it,’ would touch my heart and all else would be forgotten. Such was Minnie Maddern when I first met her on her eighteenth birthday.” [169] This was not her first marriage. She had been married when she was about sixteen to LeGrand White, a musician and theatrical manager. They were divorced about two years before she married Mr. Fiske. “For two years before her marriage [to Mr. Fiske] she had been continually worried with the theatre and her rest was a welcome one. She had many interests beside the stage, and loved to get away to a little cottage, at Larchmont, where she took an active part in all the doings, and where she was a familiar figure driving a little yellow cart madly over the roads, more often bare headed than not, and always with that wonderful red hair flying in the wind.”--Mildred Aldrich. [170] The list of productions beginning with Mrs. Fiske’s return to the stage in 1893, and not including revivals, is as follows: _A Doll’s House_, and _Hester Crewe_ (by Mr. Fiske), 1893; _Frou-Frou_, 1894; _The Queen of Liars_ (_La Menteuse_) and _A White Pink_, 1895; _A Light from St. Agnes_ (by Mrs. Fiske) and _La Femme de Claude_, 1896; _Divorçons_ and _Tess of the D’Urbervilles_, 1897; _A Bit of Old Chelsea_ and _Love Finds a Way_ (_The Right to Happiness_) 1898; _Little Italy_, _Magda_, and _Becky Sharp_, 1899; _The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch_ and _Miranda of the Balcony_, 1901; _Mary of Magdala_, 1902; _Hedda Gabler_, 1903; _Leah Kleschna_, 1904; _The Rose_, and _The Eyes of the Heart_ (one-act plays by Mrs. Fiske), 1905; _Dolce_, and _The New York Idea_, 1906; _Rosmersholm_, 1907; _Salvation Nell_, 1908; _Hannele_, _The Pillars of Society_, and _Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh_, 1910; _The New Marriage_, 1911; _Lady Patricia_ and _The High Road_, 1912; _Lady Betty Martingale, or The Adventures of a Hussy_, 1914. [171] H. T. Parker in the _Boston Transcript_. [172] W. P. Eaton. [173] H. T. Parker.