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This is the first complete edition of the letters and notebooks of actress Mary Devlin, Edwin Booth's first wife, and is the first reference of its kind in nineteenth-century American theatre scholarship. These documents provide a fascinating perspective on Booth, his life, and the development of his career, and include new materials recently uncovered through the editor's research. The volume is also a valuable guide to biograhical information about Booth's father and brother (John Wilkes Booth), and to studies of Mary Devlin Booth and her influence on her husband. In addition, it identifies sources that reflect certain mid-nineteenth-century attitudes and provides a clearer picture of the conventional role wives had in their husband's careers during that period.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780313254680
  • ISBN-10: 0313254680
  • Publisher: Praeger
  • Publish Date: June 1987
  • Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.03 pounds
  • Page Count: 208

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