Introduction: Victorian Theatricalities

After a barrage of manipulative fan-letters from Sir Merton and Annie Russell-Cotes, Sir Henry Irving, titan of the Victorian stage and the first actor to be knighted, eventually came to stay, briefly, at East Cliff Hall in Bournemouth. A peculiar but attractive compound of Scots baronial castle, It...

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Main Author: Michael Dobson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2009-04-01
Series:19
Online Access:http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1562/