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394 A FEW WOEDS ABOUT ACTKESSES.
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The Life Of An Actress Is To The World A...
from "bread tlie Stud dreary acting flats rehearsing of actuality and ; she preparing is just - her working dresses for , leave her
lier after with month . scarcel y if , she y is a , moment so fortunate ' s res , t as , to and obtain week a after long we engagem ek , month ent ,
membered this strain that , upon it mind is not and as in bod the y previous goes on . instance And it we must have be ~ been
recontinue better supposing things , without a probationary beyond improvement it , , but part a . of condition Then experience so that many with will things the most hope likel have of y
to be attended to . There must be constant economy , or how would her five and twenty shillings salary meet all expenses , and
ment provide the dresses much she in the requires hiher ? departments For though of the the rates profession of pay- , g
generall skil in the ful vary in i y nfe but inv very rior enting a ones small costumes they one are . She more and must adap fixed ting be and her her the own wardrobe remuneration dressmaker to all is ,
sorts of exigencies . Her work seems mere play to those who see her in some unimportant character , ( in which there may still be
rehearsal " " p was lent put y to in or say two b , ) , but herself while even perhaps that Sounless every cost some stitch she hours of neg the lect of dress her stud she y work , a wears , long or
And degenerate as regards into y any a slattern appeal . , against she , must overwork be unceasing , her position ly industrious is scarcely . better than that of the servant irlwhobeing blamed because
think some , impossibl ma'am , e I task never l poor was grow The not tired done ? g actress " , and , ventured must was , dismissed to never ask , "Do for tired you im- . pertinence accordingpoor grow
It would be quite as y . impertinent in her to suggest such a thing , and the consequences would probably be the same .
" What am I to do with this little daughter of mine , " a clever , what intelligent is best actress to do once with asked a little of irl us , like "it this is ? so " difficult The little to know irl in g
in soft question her brown ways was , but an exceeding with it was such impossible ly a interesting grave g , sensible while child their soul ; prett gaze looking y was and out on childlike you of her to
insult her by eyes speak , ing of childish things . She was astonishingly to self others -helpful as , well and had which a wonderful she did in instinct so unobtru of making sive a herself manner useful , that
her existence was , only known by the assistance she contrived to . give ; her a clever mother child to , do too , with with her true ? talent She had for four acting children . And besides what
. was ¦ . this little Frances , boys that must if possible be educated by her , for their fathera confirmed drunkard , was worse than dead to
them , and she , had only her salary for playing the " Chambermaids " with which to provide for all . Frances had a taste for
musicbut it would cost so much to thoroughly educate her as a musician , . Then her mother often wished that she _shoxild be taken
away altogether from the influences of a theatre , but how was this
394 A Few Woeds About Actkesses.
394 A FEW WOEDS ABOUT _ACTKESSES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/34/
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