When Henry Irving took his whole Lyceum company across the Atlantic with Ellen Terry, the journalist Joseph Hatton went along and recorded the tour in sketches, chronicles and conversations with the actor. Arrival in New York, the Lotos Club, the opening night of The Bells, railroad sleeping-cars in frozen winter and the American theatre-going public all pass under review.
A rich source for theatre history and for Victorian impressions of the United States. Download the free EPUB.