This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Death
She died from congestive heart failure at the age of 66 in Queens New York. In 1882 at age 16 Minnie Maddern Fiske married a musician named LeGrande White but divorced after a short time. Selected theater appearances.

Her performances in several Henrik Ibsen plays widely introduced American audiences to the Norwegian playwright. She also spearheaded the fight against the Theatrical Syndicate for the sake of artistic freedom. Fiske was one of the leading American actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.