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Page 97
... Lady Frederick was produced I had reached the end of the little money I had come into when I was twenty - one , my novels did not bring me in enough to live upon , and I could earn nothing by journalism . I had been given a little ...
... Lady Frederick was produced I had reached the end of the little money I had come into when I was twenty - one , my novels did not bring me in enough to live upon , and I could earn nothing by journalism . I had been given a little ...
Page 105
... lady , and having made up my mind on this point , wrote Lady Frederick . But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so successful , was one in which the heroine in order to disillusion a young lover let him come ...
... lady , and having made up my mind on this point , wrote Lady Frederick . But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so successful , was one in which the heroine in order to disillusion a young lover let him come ...
Page 106
... Lady Frederick was produced at the Court Theatre . Three months later Mrs. Dot was being played at the Comedy and Jack Straw at the Vaudeville . In June Lewis Waller put on at the Lyric a play called The Explorer which I had written ...
... Lady Frederick was produced at the Court Theatre . Three months later Mrs. Dot was being played at the Comedy and Jack Straw at the Vaudeville . In June Lewis Waller put on at the Lyric a play called The Explorer which I had written ...
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