File:Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries- Volume 8, page 111, December 3, 1856.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionThomas Butler Gunn Diaries- Volume 8, page 111, December 3, 1856.jpg |
English: Regarding seeing Lotty Kidder on stage at Laura Keene's theater.
Transcription: New York. Mark Lennon’s cockney farce the “School for Tigers” was played afterwards, and Lotty [Kidder] appeared in it. She looked very pretty in a simple white dress, with bright ribbons at the shoulders, and a little scarlet apron. I think she was rouged, though not much so; her hair arranged, as of old, in thick clustering curls. She played well, too, though I don’t think she’ll achieve much celebrity on the stage. What a dreadful reality is this girl’s life in contrast with the buffoonery of the piece in which she took part. Wilful and perverse daughter of an indescribably base and false mother [Rebecca Kidder] and a most contemptible father [William Kidder]; reckless wife, unnatural mother, adulteress and God knows what beside — oh, Lotty! Lotty! who could have guesed all this horror on that night when I first looked on your arch, innocently-wilful-childish beautiful face. Yet it all lay there then, in thy nature — undeveloped. Damn that accursed mother of hers! Much — very much of the sin lies at her doors — if not all. I shall yet write a book with Lotty for one of its heroines, and do justice to her both in good and evil. She has good in her. She might have been worthy of a good man’s love. — I’ll flay that mother of hers! I’ll tell the Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 8, page 111, December 3, 1856 |
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Missouri History Museum URL: http://images.mohistory.org/image/A6A8B94B-EE72-1A4A-644E-908CDD25F7D9/original.jpg Gallery: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/182308 |
Author | Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903 |
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Identifier InfoField | DX03715310 |
Part of InfoField | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries- Volume 8, April 12, 1856-September 30, 1857 |
Subjects InfoField | Clothing and dress Actors Diaries Theater Women |
Resource InfoField | 182308 |
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