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Eric Wollencott Barnes. The Lady of Fashion
The Lady of Fashion
Table of Contents
Prologue
CHAPTER ONE. The Exiles’ Return
CHAPTER TWO. The Mourning Bride
CHAPTER THREE “A Household Harp”
CHAPTER FOUR. Second Exile
CHAPTER FIVE. Gulzara and the Great Step
CHAPTER SIX “An Entertainment of a Somewhat Novel Character”
CHAPTER SEVEN. Men and Angels
CHAPTER EIGHT. The Unfettered Muse
CHAPTER NINE. Fashion
CHAPTER TEN “A Sensation Unexampled in Theatricals”
CHAPTER ELEVEN. A New Star in Old Drury
CHAPTER TWELVE “... The Stuff of Which Great Actresses Are Made”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Lily and the Raven
CHAPTER FOURTEEN “... The Minerva of the Modern Stage”
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. The Great Circuit
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Siege of London
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN “Our Little Mowatt”
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. The Long Way Home
CHAPTER NINETEEN “... Still Let Me Dwell in Your Remembrance”
CHAPTER TWENTY “... But Seldom Wildly Gay”
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE “... The Sunshine Passes Away So Soon”
A NOTE ON SOURCES
Footnote
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Eric Wollencott Barnes
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The Minstrel was infirm and old....
What they or anyone else thought was just now of small importance to Anna Cora. She had committed herself to an unprecedented step, and if she failed it would not be for lack of effort. Meticulously she analyzed every line of every poem she would present, trying innumerable readings until she had the one she felt was right. At night in the library she would try out the results on James; and when in his judgment a stress had been misplaced, a tone was pitched too high or too low, she corrected the reading and next day under the arbor rehearsed the change.
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