The Stage Life of Mrs. Stirling : With Some Sketches of the Nineteenth Century Theatre
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Bracegirdle," " The Tragedy Queen." My grandmother always enjoyed playing actresses, because such roles gave her more opportunity to make use of her elocutionary powers than most drawing-room dramas afforded. Always fond of recitation, she just revelled in the tragedy speeches, and ' Bom July 29, 1813 — therefore nearly forty-two. % " The Times, June 23, 1855. ' *^ ' On September 1, 1856, Bartholomew Fair was proclaimed for the last time. WITH ROBSON AT THE OLYMPIC 161 it was her delight in the...m, no doubt, together with her need for more rest, that turned her mind httle by little towards an alternative occupation, which, while suited to her taste and abilities, would tax her physique less than would play-acting upon the legitimate stage. Two more r61es, during 1856, I have noted — ^the lead in "Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are," by Mrs. Inchbald, and "Miss Dorrillon," with Robson, in "A Conjugal Lesson." Then, on February 19, 1857, she was seen as "Anne Carew," in another domestic drama by Tom Taylor, " A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing," ^ which takes us to Taunton, after Sedgemoor, in 1685, when Kirke's Lambs were loose about the West Country, and rebel fruit, of King Monmouth's army, dangled from the sign-boards of the Somerset Inns.
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