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• Our actresses; or, Glances at stage favourites, past and present. (Smith, Elder, 1844), by Mrs. Cornwell Baron-Wilson and Lucius Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the players. (Hamilton, Adams, 1886), by John Galt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comedy queens of the Georgian era (E. P. Dutton, 1907), by John Fyvie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Olga Nethersole (Clarke, 1907), by Archie Bell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)
• Alma Murray : portrait as Beatrice Cenci (Elkin Mathews, 1891), by Robert Browning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hela Englands Nell Gwyn : en tidsbild från Karl II:s dagar (L. Hökerbergs bokförlag, 1924), by Oswald Fredrik Kuylenstierna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most celebrated actors and actresses (E. Appleyard, 1848), by Thomas Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most celebrated actors and actresses (E. Appleyard, [1848?], 1848), by Thomas Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Mary Robinson, "Perdita," (Gibbings and company, ld., 1895), by Mary Darby Robinson, J. Fitzgerald Molloy, and Mary Elizabeth Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libel for divorce with answer and exhibits (s.n., 1848), by Pierce Butler and Fanny Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portrait d'une actrice (Mrs. Siddons) being an extract from Méïpe (The University press, 1927), by André Maurois and E. G. Le Grand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mrs. Siddons, by Nina H. Kennard, ed. by John Henry Ingram (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ellen Terry and Her Sisters, by T. Edgar Pemberton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield, by Edward Robins (Gutenberg ebook)

• Faithful memoirs of the life, amours and performances, of that justly celebrated, and most eminent actress of her time, Mrs. Anne Oldfield : interspersed with several other dramatical memoirs ([s.n.], 1731), by Edmund Curll and Colley Cibber (page images at HathiTrust)

• Perdita : a romance in biography (Hutchinson, 1908), by Stanley V. Makower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perdita : a romance in biography (D. Appleton, 1908), by Stanley V. Makower (page images at HathiTrust)
• A century of famous actresses, 1750-1850 (Mills & Boon, ltd., 1913), by Harold Simpson and Charles Braun (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bristol stage : its story (Bristol Printing & Pub., 1919), by G. Rennie Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helena Faucit (Lady Martin) (W. Blackwood, 1900), by Theodore Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue raisonnee of Mr. Mathews's gallery of theatrical portraits, now exhibited for the first time, and forming a nearly complete dramatic record from the year 1659 down to the present time. (W. Clowes, 1833), by Charles Mathews, Charles Lamb, and Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dramatic peerage, 1892 : personal notes and professional sketches of the actors and actresses of the London stage (Raithby, Lawrence, 1892), by Herbert Compton and Erskine Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons, interspersed with anecdotes of authors and actors. (Lippincott, 1893), by James Boaden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our actors and actresses: the dramatic list; of living actors and actresses of the British stage. (D. Bogue, 1880), by Charles Eyre Pascoe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The position of Peggy Harper (Dutton, 1919), by Leonard Merrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• The "Mind the Paint" Girl (comedy in 4 acts), by Arthur Wing Pinero (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML with music, and page images)

• The first English actresses, from the initial appearance of women on the stage in 1660 till 1700 (The Players, 1930), by Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stage favourites of the eighteenth century (Hutchinson & Co. ltd., 1928), by Lewis Saul Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stage in the year 1900: a souvenir, being a collection of photogravure plates portraying the leading players and playwrights of the day and a history of the stage during the Victorian era. (Spottiswoode & Co., 1901), by William Eden Hooper and Joseph Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colley Cibber. (Grolier Society, 1900), by Colley Cibber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stage favourites of the eighteenth century. (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1929), by Lewis Saul Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the players (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831), by John Galt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mad folk of the theatre; ten studies in temperament (The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1928), by Otis Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• More stage favourites of the eighteenth century (Hutchinson & co. ltd., 1929), by Lewis Saul Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robertsoniana; an illustrated appendix to Robert Arthur's season of Robertson comedies. (Merser and Sons, 1910), by Eade Montefiore and Robert Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tragedy queens of the Georgian era (Methuen & co., 1908), by John Fyvie (page images at HathiTrust)
• La jeunesse de Fanny Kemble. (Didier et cie., 1880), by Augustus Craven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comedy queens of the Georgian era (Archibald Constable and Company, Limited, 1906), by John Fyvie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biography of the British stage : being correct narratives of the lives of all the principal actors & actresses .. Interspersed with original anecdotes and choice and illustrative poetry. To which is added, a comic poem, entitled "The actress." (Printed for Sherwood, Jones, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La jeunesse de Fanny Kemble. (Perrin, etc., 1888), by Augustus Craven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kean and Booth and their contemporaries (L. C. Page, 1900), by Brander Matthews and Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• La jeunesse de Fanny Kemble. (Perrin et cie, 1910), by Augustus Craven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tragedy queens of the Georgian era (E.P. Dutton, 1909), by John Fyvie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dramatic peerage, 1891 : personal notes and professional sketches of the actors and actresses of the London stage (General publishing, Dodd, Eyton, 1891), by Erskine Reid and Herbert Compton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colley Cibber. (Athenœum Press, 1900), by Colley Cibber, Anthony Aston, James Wright, and Robert William Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colley Cibber ... (The Grolier Society, 1900), by Colley Cibber, James Wright, Robert William Lowe, and Tony Aston (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
• Some players; personal sketches (H. S. Stone & company, 1900), by Lillie Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dramatic year book for ... 1891. An annual chronicle of the drama in Great Britain, France, United States of America and Australasia, and stage directory for the United Kingdom ... (Trischler, 1892), by Charles Smith Cheltnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar chats with the queens of the stage (G. W. Dillingham, 1890), by Alan Dale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peeresses of the stage (A. Melrose, 1913), by Cranstoun Metcalfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories and impressions of Helena Modjeska : an autobiography ; illustrated. (New York, [NY] : The Macmillan Co., 1910., 1910), by Helena Modjeska (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some players; personal sketches. (H. S. Stone & company, 1899), by Lillie West Brown Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Players and plays of the last quarter century; an historical summary of causes and a critical review of conditions as existing in the American theatre at the close of the nineteenth century (L. C. Page & company, 1903), by Lewis Clinton Strang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hours with the players (Chatto and Windus, 1881), by Dutton Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's heroines on the stage (T.Y. Crowell, 1895), by Charles E. L. Wingate (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Robinson Locke dramatic collection in the New York public library. On exhibition in the New York public library May 13 to September 30, 1925. ([New York], 1925), by New York. Public library. Robinson Locke collection and Robinson Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Causerien über Theater (F. Fontane, 1905), by Theodor Fontane and Paul Schlenther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italian actors of the renaissance (Coward-McCann, Inc., 1930), by Winifred Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aktery i rezhissery, "teatralʹnai︠a︡ Rossii︠a︡" ("Sovremennye problemy" N.A. Stolli︠a︡r, 1928), by Vladimir Germanovich Lidin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the stage (Joseph Knight, 1893), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alma Murray : portrait as Beatrice Cenci (Elkin Mathews, 1891), by Robert Browning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare on the stage. 2d series (Moffat, Yard and Company, 1915), by William Winter and Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare on the stage. 3d series (Moffat, Yard, 1916), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroines of the modern stage (Sturgis & Walton Company, 1915), by Forrest Izard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the stage (Macmillan, 1892), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vagrant memories; being further recollections of other days (George H. Doran company, 1915), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alexandra (Dial Press, 1947), by Gladys Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die frau als schauspierlerin; ein essay. (Oesterhold & co., 1915), by Julius Bab (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great love stories of the theatre; a record of theatrical romance. (Duffield and company, 1911), by Charles Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Backstage with actors, from the time of Shakespeare to the present day. (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1938), by Helen Ormsbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of the drama; a guide to the plays, playwrights, players, and playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the earliest times to the present. Vol. 1, A-G. (B. Franklin, 1965), by William Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hours with the players. (Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Dutton Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some Victorian women, good, bad, and indifferent (John Lane, The Bodley head limited, 1923), by Harry Furniss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doug and Mary, and others (Macy-Masius, 1927), by Allene Talmey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Loges d'artistes. (E. Dentu, 1889), by Louis Germont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robertsoniana; an illustrated appendix to Robert Arthur's season of Robertson comedies. (Merser and Sons, 1910), by Eade Montefiore and Robert Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the stage. (Joseph Knight Company, 1893), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stage in the twentieth century, [third volume] (Broadway publishing co., 1912., 1912), by Robert Grau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dramatic peerage, 1892 : personal notes and professional sketches of the actors and actresses of the London stage (Raithby, Lawrence, 1892), by Herbert Compton and Erskine Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enchanted aisles (G.P.Putnam's sons, 1924), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text (D. Estes & Company, 1903), by Walter Rowlands (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (Broadway publishing company, 1914), by Robert Grau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whatever goes up-- the hazardous fortunes of a natural born gambler (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1934), by George Crouse Tyler and J. C. Furnas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enchanted aisles (G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1924), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of the drama; a guide to the plays, play-wrights, players, and playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the earliest times to the present (Chatto & Windus, 1904), by William Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masker og mennesker. (København, 1910), by Herman Bang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare on the stage (Moffat, Yard and company, 1911), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ladies of the footlights (The Login printing and binding company, 1937), by DeWitt Bodeen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who on the screen (Ross publishing co., 1920), by Charles Donald Fox and Milton L. Silver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years observation of music and the drama (Broadway publishing company, 1909), by Robert Grau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the stage. Second series. (Macmillan and company, 1893), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vor und auf den Bretern : Schauspieler-memoiren nach F. Barrière's Bibliothèque des mémoires teutsch (Arnold, 1848), by Ida Frick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gaiety stage door : thirty years' reminiscences of the theatre (Small, Maynard, 1923), by James Jupp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some players; personal sketches. (Duffield & Co., 1906), by Amy Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studio directory. (Motion picture news, incorporated, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the stage (J. Knight, 1892), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the stage (Macmillan and company, 1894), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the stage ... (Macmillan and company, 1906), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Players and plays of the last quarter century; an historical summary of causes and a critical review of conditions as existing in the American theatre at the close of the nineteenth century (L. C. Page & company, 1910), by Lewis Clinton Strang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Purely personal; a unique and fascinating biographical sketch-book, with a novel and delightful method of illustrating it ... Lives of the famous actresses of the day ... (Purely Personal Co., 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magas e histriões (Livraria Aillaud e Bertrand, 1914), by Manoel de Sousa Pinto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Princesses de comédie et déesses d'opéra. Portraits, camées, profils, silhouettes (H. Plon, 1860), by Arsène Houssaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Across my path (Brentano's, 1916), by La Salle Corbell Pickett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of an actress, or, Eight years on the stage (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• El teatro por dentro : autores, comediantes, escenas de la vida de bastidores, etc, (Editorial Maucci, 1911), by Eduardo Zamacois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les actrices de Paris (H. Launette,, G. Decaux, 1882), by Daniel Bernard, Emile Bergerat, and Ernest Frédéric de Liphart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Schauspielerin; ihr Weg, ihre Gestalt und ihre Wirkung. (W. Hädecke, 1922), by Rudolf Karl Goldschmit-Jentner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gallery of players from the Illustrated American (Illustrated American, 1894), by Austin Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth about the stage. (Wyman & sons, 1885), by Corin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the stage. Third series. (Joseph Knight company, 1895), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tragedy queens of the Georgian era (E.P. Dutton, 1909), by John Fyvie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the stage. Second series. (Macmillan, 1906), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty-years of a play-goer's journal; or, Annals of the New York stage, from A.D. 1798 to A.D. 1848. With biographical sketches of all the principal performers. (S. French, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tooneel-herinneringen, met portretten. (A.W. Sijthoff, 1900), by M. B. Mendes da Costa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years observation of music and the drama (Broadway Pub. Co., 1909), by Robert Grau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leshkovskai︠a︡, 1864-1925 ([Soviet Union?] : [publisher not identified], [1926?], 1926), by V. V. Fedorov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Film-magazin ... (Kühn, 1920), by Victor Neuenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Women and theatres (Carleton ;, 1870), by Olive Logan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les jolies actrices de Paris (Pache & Deffaux, 1868), by Paul Mahalin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ces dames, physionomies Parisiennes. (Chez Tous les Libraires, 1860), by A. Vermorel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behind the screen (Grant Richards, 1924), by Samuel Goldwyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alexandra (Pocket Books, 1949), by Gladys Schmitt and Jon Nielsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mirrors of Hollywood, with brief biographies of favorite film folk (Charles Renard Corporation, 1925), by Charles Donald Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some Victorian women, good, bad, and indifferent. (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by Harry Furniss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare on the stage (Moffat, Yard and Company, 1911), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oscar Wilde's letters to Sarah Bernhardt (Girard, Kansas : Haldeman-Julius Company, [1924], 1924), by Oscar Wilde, Sylvestre Dorian, and Sarah Bernhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroines of the Modern Stage, by Forrest Izard (Gutenberg ebook)
• El teatro por dentro: Autores, comediantes, escenas de la vida de bastidores, etc. (in Spanish), by Eduardo Zamacois (Gutenberg ebook)

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