Autograph letters signed from Tom Taylor, London, to [Frances Anne] Kemble [manuscript], [1854-1855].

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Autograph letters signed from Tom Taylor, London, to [Frances Anne] Kemble [manuscript], [1854-1855].

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Letters mention Charles Reade, with whom he wrote "The King's Rival" in 1854, and the play she suggested he write [Still waters run deep], based on "Le Gendre" [by Charles de Bernard]. On (p.393) is a criticism of [Frederick] Robson.

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Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834, Kemble married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Mease Butler, grandson of U.S. Senator Pierce Butler, whom she had met on an American acting tour with her father in 1832....

Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880

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Tom Taylor (19 October 1817 – 12 July 1880) was an English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of Punch magazine. Taylor had a brief academic career, holding the professorship of English literature and language at University College, London in the 1840s, after which he practised law and became a civil servant. At the same time he became a journalist, most prominently as a contributor to, and eventually editor of Punch. In addition to these vocations, Taylor began a theat...

Robson, Frederick, 1821-1864

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English actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dublin, [n.d.], to [Lewis Strange] Wingfield, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270676006 From the description of Clipped signature. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270676192 ...

Reade, Charles, 1814-1884

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Charles Reade was born in Oxfordshire, and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford; he became a fellow of the college, studied law, and earned a Doctor of Civil Laws degree, although he never practiced law. He wrote numerous plays, often in collaboration with other dramatists, including translations of continentral drama (sometimes without permission). His most successful play was Masks and Faces which, on the advice of actress Laura Seymour, he turned into a novel. He was eventually more successfu...

Bernard, Charles ˜deœ 1804-1850

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