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Derek and Julia Parker, The Natural History of the Chorus Girl, London, David
& Charles, 1975, p. 22.
See Sanderson’s chapter on ‘Financial Rewards and Safeguards 1890– 1914’,
op. cit., pp. 79–94.
Mrs Mathews, ‘Ennobled Actresses’, Bentley’s Miscellany, 1845, vol. 17, p.
600; Noel B.Gerson, Because I Loved Him: The Life and Loves of Lillie Langtry,
New York, William Morrow, 1971, p. 84–7; Christopher Thomson,
Autobiography of an Artisan, 1847, p. 259; and Joseph Knight, ‘Who is the
Greatest Living English Actress—and Why?’, The Idler, November 1885, vol.
8, p. 393.
Ehrlich, op. cit., p. 44.
H.G.Hibbert, Fifty Years a Londoner’s Life, London, Grant Richards, 1916, pp.
211–12; ‘The Electric Dance’, Era 1 April 1893, p. 15.
George Foster, The Spice of Life: Sixty-five Years in the Glamour World, London,
Hurst & Blackett, [1939], p. 102.
Charles Booth, ‘On the Economics of Music Hall,’ Theatre Quarterly, OctoberDecember 1971, vol. 1, p. 46.
John Ebers, Seven Years of the King’s Theatre, London, William Harrison
Ainsworth, 1828, p. 395.
J.H.Anderson, Letter, Stage, 7 August 1885, p. 18.
‘The Theatrical Business—I’, St James’s Gazette, 10 January 1885, p. 6.
‘What a Ballet Costs: A Peep Behind the Scenes’, Sketch, 12 February 1896, p.
114.
Ann Catherine Holbrook, The Dramatist: or, Memoirs of the Stage, Birmingham,
Martin & Hunter, 1809, p. 38.
Rede, op. cit., pp. 5–9.
[Adelaide] Mrs Charles Calvert, Sixty-Eight Years on the Stage, London, Mills
& Boon [1911], p. 14.
Letter, Era, 4 December 1853, p. 10.
Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. III, London, Charles

Griffin [1856], p. 150. This may be an improvement on Thomson’s experience,
probably acquired in the 1820s: the combined efforts of Thomson, his wife,
and their young son often earned more than 1s. a night (and on two occasions
they earned 4s. each) but they did not play every night. (Thomson, op. cit. p.
195).
Letter, Stage, 26 October 1893, p. 14.
Squire Bancroft and Marie Wilton, The Bancrofts: Recollections of Sixty Years,
London, John Murray, 1909.
Foster, op. cit., p. 96.
Leading Article, ‘Actors’ Salaries’, Era, 26 October 1907, p. 21.
Fitzroy Gardner, ‘Does Acting Pay? A Warning’, Daily Mail, 18 October 1907,
p. 6.
ibid., p. 6.
‘A Chat with Kate Phillips’, Era, 5 May 1894, p. 11.
A.Bulley and Margaret Whitley, Women’s Work, London, Methuen, 1894,
pp. 33–4.
Stage, 2 December 1895, p. 11.
Stedman Jones, op. cit., pp. 30–1.
Cicely Hamilton, Life Errant, London, J.M.Dent, 1935, p. 43.

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