KEENE, CHARLES S urt EL (1823-91). An English humorous artist, horn in Duvals Lane, 1Tornsey. lie went to school in Foundation Street, Ipswich, and after learning the wood-en graver's trade he began, at the age of twenty four, to make drawings for the Illustrated Lon don Yrn-s and other periodicals: but left his mark indilibly upon the Punch publieations. wherein his most charaeteristie work appeared franc 1'-'51 until his death. 1Te illustrated edi tions of Pohinson Crasor: The Cloister and the Hearth ; Eran Harrinaton; the Candle Lectures: and the Roundabout Papers (18791; while a collection of his eontributions to Paneh were published in a volume entitled Our People (DM). Of a retiring disposition, he was yet a close and sympathetic observer of Cockney life, and the gold medal he Won at the Paris Exhibition of 1890 was deserved no less for his superb technique in black and white than for his delineation of quaint lower-class British types wherever found.
KEENE, 1,AuttA (1820?-73). The stage name of Miss Mary Moss, an actress, born in England, who completed her carter in America. Iler great
est success before coming to this country was as Pauline in The Lady of Lyons (in London, 1851). She left England in 1852. and went, by way of the United States, where she trade her first appear ance in New York. on September 20, 1852, to Aus tralia. In 1855 she returned to New York, and about a year later site opened there a playhouse bearing her own name. Iler most celebrated pro duction was Our American Cousin. which site brought out in 1858, with Joseph Jefferson as .Asa Trenclmrd and E. A. Scalier!' as Lord Dun dreary. She afterwards toured with it, and it was during one of her presentations of this play in 1865 that President Lincoln was assassinated. Most of the last ten years of her career she con tinued to direct her traveling company. As a star she was very successful, especially in melo dramatic pieces. Miss Keene was twice married —to H. \V. Taylor in 1817, and to John Lutz ten years later. She died at Montelair, N. .T., Notember 4, 1873. Consult Creahan, 7'hc Life of Laura Keene (Philadelphia, 1897).