Theatre broadside announcement for THE FEMALE DETECTIVE
Ephemeral program for the Boston Theatre's April 9-10 showings of THE FEMALE DETECTIVE, played by American "Golden Girl" Lotta Crabtree.
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Price: $400.00
Ephemeral program for the Boston Theatre's April 9-10 showings of THE FEMALE DETECTIVE, played by American "Golden Girl" Lotta Crabtree.
Very good.
Price: $400.00
"Although it was reviewed in Australia as 'one of the most trashy specimens of the sensation school every placed upon the stage' [...] it was performed in decades in America, because it was associated with the most popular entertainer there, the actress Lotta." – Lucy Sussex
Written in 1863 by English playwright C.H. Hazlewood as THE MOTHER'S DYING CHILD, the better named FEMALE DETECTIVE features a daughter turned sleuth to help her father. The plot is moved partially through young detective Florence using multiple disguises to get information. This performance of "The Female Detective" was part of a national tour: headlining in the 1860s, by the 1870s Crabtree would become the nation's highest paid actress.
Read more: Sussex, Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction; Flanders, The Invention of Murder.
Boston: F.A. Searle, Job Printer, 1869. 19.75'' x 8.25''. Single broadside sheet printed on recto only in varying sizes of wood display type. Some edgewear and trimming, but wide margins intact.
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