John Wilkes and the women who loved him /
Abel, E. Lawrence
John Wilkes and the women who loved him / E. Lawrence Abel. - xxiv, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-440) and index.
I've broken my promise -- Old sins cast long shadows -- They idolized him -- Young and pretty Maggie Mitchell -- This Harpers Ferry business -- The Star sisters: Helen and Lucille Western -- I cannot stoop to that which I despise -- Almost an eunuch -- Little rehearsals: Louise Wooster -- The southern marseillaise -- All for love and murder: Henrietta Irving -- My goose hangs high -- True grit -- Effie and Alice -- Imagine my helping that wounded soldier -- The most beautiful woman on the American stage -- Storming about the country is sad work -- Not a secesh -- Isabel Sumner -- A gang of misfits -- Lucy Lambert Hale -- Anything that pleases you: Ella Strr -- Assassination -- I have too great a soul to die like a criminal -- Ella Starr -- Asia and Mary All -- "It cannot be denied": Lucy Hale -- Effie Germon -- Alice Gray -- Helen Western -- Fanny Brown -- Henrietta Irving -- Maggie Mitchell -- Ada Gray -- Isabel Sumner -- Louise Wooster -- Clara Morris -- Martha Mills.
9781621575962 (hardcover)
2018018302
Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 --Relations with women.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Assassination.
Paramours--United States--Biography.
Assassins--United States--Biography.
Actors--United States--Biography.
E457.5 / .A133 2018
973.7092/2 B
John Wilkes and the women who loved him / E. Lawrence Abel. - xxiv, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-440) and index.
I've broken my promise -- Old sins cast long shadows -- They idolized him -- Young and pretty Maggie Mitchell -- This Harpers Ferry business -- The Star sisters: Helen and Lucille Western -- I cannot stoop to that which I despise -- Almost an eunuch -- Little rehearsals: Louise Wooster -- The southern marseillaise -- All for love and murder: Henrietta Irving -- My goose hangs high -- True grit -- Effie and Alice -- Imagine my helping that wounded soldier -- The most beautiful woman on the American stage -- Storming about the country is sad work -- Not a secesh -- Isabel Sumner -- A gang of misfits -- Lucy Lambert Hale -- Anything that pleases you: Ella Strr -- Assassination -- I have too great a soul to die like a criminal -- Ella Starr -- Asia and Mary All -- "It cannot be denied": Lucy Hale -- Effie Germon -- Alice Gray -- Helen Western -- Fanny Brown -- Henrietta Irving -- Maggie Mitchell -- Ada Gray -- Isabel Sumner -- Louise Wooster -- Clara Morris -- Martha Mills.
9781621575962 (hardcover)
2018018302
Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 --Relations with women.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Assassination.
Paramours--United States--Biography.
Assassins--United States--Biography.
Actors--United States--Biography.
E457.5 / .A133 2018
973.7092/2 B