Mary Mannering as Janice Meredith        

Ford, Paul Leicester; Rose, Edward E.

Published by R. H. Russell, New York (1900)

9 x 12 inches, 16 pp + cover.  Illustrated throughout

Actress Mary Mannering created a sensation playing the lead role in the historical drama 'Janice Meredith," the tale of a loyalist girl who aids the patriot cause and juggles suitors across the political spectrum. The title character was a teenage girl with an engagingly obnoxious attraction to genteel young men, an underdeveloped sense of political responsibility, and a curious obliviousness to her own attractiveness. In short, she was not a stock character, but a personality. The show was a major hit, in part because of the American cultural fashion for the colonial revival, and in part because author Paul Liester Ford was murdered by his famous athlete brother during the run.



See photos for condition details.  Cover edge wear only.  Spine open very top

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