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Author: Morris, Clara, 1848-1925.
Title: Life on the stage : my personal experiences and recollections /
Print source: Life on the stage : my personal experiences and recollections / Clara Morris.
Morris, Clara, 1848-1925.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901.
Publication Info: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library
2007-12-04
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Actors--Biography.
URL: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=31735054859669;view=toc;c=darltext

Contents
[Front Cover]
[Front Matter]
[Title Page]
[Front Matter]
Contents
Chapter First. I am Born.
Chapter Second. Beginning Early, I Learn Love, Fear, and Hunger [...]
Chapter Third. I Enter a New World--I Know a [...]
Chapter Fourth. I am Led into the Theatre--I Attend [...]
Chapter Fifth. I Receive my First Salary--I am Engaged [...]
Chapter Sixth. The Regular Season Opens--I have a Small [...]
Chapter Seventh. I find I am in a "Family Theatre" [...]
Chapter Eighth. I Display my New Knowledge--I Return to [...]
Chapter Ninth. The Season Reopens--I meet the Yellow Breeches [...]
Chapter Tenth. With Mr. Dan Setchell I Win Applause--A [...]
Chapter Eleventh. My Promiscuous Reading wins me a Glass of [...]
Chapter Twelfth. The Peter Richings' Engagement brings me my First [...]
Chapter Thirteenth. Mr. Roberts Refers to Me as "That Young [...]
Chapter Fourteenth. Mr. Wilkes Booth comes to us, the whole [...]
Chapter Fifteenth. Mr. R.E.J. Miles--His two Horses, and our [...]
Chapter Sixteenth. I perform a Remarkable Feat, I Study King [...]
Chapter Seventeenth. Through Devotion to my Friend, I Jeopardize my [...]
Chapter Eighteenth. Mr. Charles W. Couldock--His Daughter Eliza and [...]
Chapter Nineteenth. I Come to a Turning-Point in my [...]
Chapter Twentieth. I Have to Pass through Bitter Humiliation to [...]
Chapter Twenty-First. I Digress, but I Return to the [...]
Chapter Twenty-Second. I Hear Mrs. Kean's Story of Wolsey's [...]
Chapter Twenty-Third. Mr. E.L. Davenport, his Interference, his [...]
Chapter Twenty-Fourth. I recall the Popularity and too Early [...]
Chapter Twenty-Fifth. I See an Actress Dethroned--I Make [...]
Chapter Twenty-Sixth. Mr. Lawrence Barrett the Brilliant and his [...]
Chapter Twenty-Seventh. I play "Marie" to Oblige--Mr. Barrett's [...]
Chapter Twenty-Eighth. I accept an Engagement with Mr. Macaulay [...]
Chapter Twenty-Ninth. My first Humiliating Experience in Cincinnati is [...]
Chapter Thirtieth. New York City is Suggested to Me by [...]
Chapter Thirty-First. John Cockerill and our Eccentric Engagement--I [...]
Chapter Thirty-Second. I Recall Mr. John E. Owens, and [...]
Chapter Thirty-Third. From the "Wild West" I Enter the [...]
Chapter Thirty-Fourth. I Rehearse Endlessly--I Grow Sick with [...]
Chapter Thirty-Fifth. I Am Accepted by the Company--I [...]
Chapter Thirty-Sixth. A Search for Tears--I am Punished [...]
Chapter Thirty-Seventh. A Study of Stage-Management--I Am [...]
Chapter Thirty-Eighth. I Go to the Sea-shore--The [...]
Chapter Thirty-Ninth. I Am too Dull to Understand a [...]
Chapter Fortieth. We Become "Barn-stormers," and Return to Open [...]
Chapter Forty-First. Trouble about Obnoxious Lines in "Madeline Morel" [...]
Chapter Forty-Second. I am Engaged to Star part of [...]
Chapter Forty-Third. We Give a Charity Performance of "Camille" [...]
Chapter Forty-Fourth. "Miss Multon" Put in Rehearsal--Our Squabble [...]
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