A Chronicle of Small Beer: The life and times of a Victorian actress

By Winifred Dolan

Winifred Dolan
Edited by Andy Moreton, with a foreword by Katherine Newey
Though her career as an actress never reached great heights Winifred Dolan's recently rediscovered diary provides a vivid account of the late 19th-century stage including training with Sarah Thorne, performing before Queen Victoria at Balmoral and working as an assistant to George Alexander. She was an early feminist and a perceptive observerof her time. Andy Moreton and Katherine Newey place Dolin in the context of her day and recent scholarship on the Victorian actress.

Available early 2010.

Hardback c 120 pp. 15 illus (2010)
ISBN 0 85430 077 5. £12 $24

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7th July 2010
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