DALLAS (Isabella, née Gearns, 1823-1889, Shakespearean Actress and Reader Isabella Glyn)

Autograph Letter Signed 'Isabella Dallas Glyn' to 'Dear Sir', saying she will be reading "early in Feby at Newcastle - and will consequently read for half my fee namely for £10-10- for you being so near", 2 sides 8vo, Princes Street, Edinburgh, 23rd December top corners defective with loss of street number (?1 or 7)

Isabella, who acted under her mother's maiden name of Glyn, made her début at Manchester as Constance in 'King John' in 1847, and played Cleopatra at the Princess' Theatre, Oxford Street, in 1867. She was married to the journalist and author E.S. Dallas, 1828-1879, whom she divorced in 1874.

Item Date:  1869

Stock No:  17031      £30

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