1897 Peg Woffington by Charles Reade, vintage book, irish actress Old uncommo

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1897 Peg Woffington by Charles Reade, vintage book, irish actress Old uncommo:
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Peg by Dodd, Mead, and Company (1897)
Used Hardcover
Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1897.
Hardcover.
Book Condition: Good
small sized hardback book
no dust jacket
illustrated frontis
red decorated cloth
spine has sun fading
Red cloth over boards, silver stamped titles
with repeating garland and mask decorations
on front cover and spine
4\"X6.5\".Tight Binding
Bright
Clean
Slight edge wear
Not Ex Library
Not a remainder
Peg Woffington is an 1853 novel by the British author Charles Reade. It was inspired by the popular stage play Masks and Faces which he had co-written with Tom Taylor the previous year.
Reade portrayed the London success of the Irish actress Peg Woffington (1720-1760) and featured other prominent figures of the days such as David Garrick.
Charles Reade (1814 – 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.
Reade began his literary career as a dramatist, and he chose to have \"dramatist\" stand first in the list of his occupations on his tombstone.
As an author, he always had an eye to stage effect in scene and situation as well as in dialogue. His first comedy, The Ladies\' Battle, appeared at the Olympic Theatre in May 1851.
It was followed by Angela (1851),A Village Tale (1852),The Lost Husband (1852),and Gold (1853).
But Reade\'s reputation was made by the two-act comedy, Masks and Faces, in which he collaborated with Tom Taylor.
It was produced in November 1852, and later was expanded into three acts. By the advice of the actress, Laura Seymour, he turned the play into a prose story which appeared in 1853 as Peg Woffington.
The same year he wrote Christie Johnstone, a close study of Scottish fisher folk.
In 1854 he produced, in conjunction with Tom Taylor, Two Loves and a Life, and The King\'s Rival, and, unaided, The Courier of Lyons (well known under its later title, The Lyons Mail) and his adaptation of Tobias Smollett\'s Peregrine Pickle.
In the next year appeared Art (1855), afterwards known as Nance Oldfield.You can click on the above pictures to supersize
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