Answering the letters of the many young women who wrote to her hoping to go on the stage, the celebrated emotional actress warns them of the hardships and explains what stage life is really like. She tells stories from her career with Augustin Daly’s company, in Miss Multon and The New Magdalen, and from her own childhood.
Warm, frank and often funny, an insider’s view of the nineteenth-century American theatre. Download the free EPUB.