Adah Isaacs Menken (June 15, 1835 – August 10, 1868) was an American actress, painter and poet, and was the highest earning actress of her time. She was...

April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014. Brooks, Daphne A. “Lady Menken’s Secret: Adah Isaacs Menken, Actress Biographies and the Race for Sensation.” Legacy...

1976) Adah Belle Thoms (1870–1943), African-American nurse of World War I Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), American actress, painter, and poet Adah Jenkins...

first entertainer to pose nude for photographs was the stage actress Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868). However, a number of well-known film stars have posed...

cover for vital parts for roles such as Lady Godiva. American actress Adah Isaacs Menken created controversy in 1861 when she wore a flesh-colored bodystocking...

Menken is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), American actress, painter and poet Alan Menken (born 1949)...

of Emélie Cordier, an actress About 1866, Dumas had an affair with Adah Isaacs Menken, an American actress who was less than half his age and at the height...

Stoddard (writing at first as "Pip Pepperpod"), Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Adah Isaacs Menken, Ada Clare, Prentice Mulford, Dan De Quille, J. S. Hittell and some...

Clapp Jr., Ada Clare, Walt Whitman, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, and actress Adah Isaacs Menken. Similar groups in other cities were broken up as well by the Civil...

Bodystockings were used on stage in at least 1860s. In 1861, American actress Adah Isaacs Menken controversially wore a flesh coloured bodystocking on stage, to preserve...