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Lesser Ladies of the Victorian Stage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Jan McDonald
Jan McDonald
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Professor of Drama, Glasgow University
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The theatrical memoirs published by actresses in the nineteenth century were generally written by women who had achieved recognition in their profession and had, therefore, acquired a place in society. Comparatively little is known about the jobbing actress who never achieved distinction in London, but who eked out an existence in the provinces, either with one of the better companies in Bath, Bristol or Edinburgh, on a theatrical ‘circuit’, or with one of the troupes of travelling players who rarely performed in theatre buildings, but in barns, village halls, inns and, occasionally, in private houses. At the bottom of the pile came the performers in fairground booths and penny theatres.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1988 , pp. 234 - 249
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1988

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