Beauclerk, Mrs. D. J. Mrs. Beauclerk's letters to Mr. Sheridan and Mr. Victor Dublin 1758
Beauclerk, Mrs. D. J. Mrs. Beauclerk's letters to Mr. Sheridan and Mr. Victor, with their answers. To which is prefixed, an occasional prologue, spoken by Mr. King the first night of her appearing on the stage. Dublin: printed, and sold by the booksellers, 1758. 32 pp. 8vo, disbound. First edition. Mrs. Beauclerk was an aspiring actress from London who had never actually appeared professionally on the stage. At the suggestion of Benjamin Victor, she paid forty pounds to Thomas Sheridan to use his theater in Dublin for a benefit evening. On November 11, 1757, she made her debut in the role of Andromache, but she decided afterwards that both Victor and Sheridan had treated her badly; the ensuing correspondence is reproduced here at some length. A peculiar episode in the theatrical career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's father; he soon decided to give up the world of the Irish stage, and moved to London to start a new life as a teacher of elocution and public lecturer. Some light waterstains and slight wrinkling, a couple of stamps of an old lending library, otherwise a sound copy of a very scarce title; the ESTC (12/04) lists six copies (L, C, Dp, Dt; ICU, MIU), to which OCLC adds two others (MH-H, OCU). Lowe (Arnott and Robinson) 2429.
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