Actors -- Biography
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A Star Danced (author died in 1952; c1945), by Gertrude Lawrence (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)- The Art of the Theatre (London: G. Bles, ca. 1924), by Sarah Bernhardt, trans. by H. J. Stenning, contrib. by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Autobiography of Clara Fisher Maeder (New York; The Dunlap society, 1897), by Clara Fisher, ed. by Douglas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Life of Charlotte Cushman (New York et al.: Brentano's, c1894), by W. T. Price (multiple formats at Google)
- Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (London: W. Heinemann, 1906), by Bram Stoker
- Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (revised and cheaper edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Bram Stoker
- A Society Clown: Reminiscences, by George Grossmith (Gutenberg text)
- Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1902), by Clara Morris (Gutenberg text)
- An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (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)
- Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by E. Owens Blackburne
- A Cosmopolitan Actor: His Adventures All Over the World (London: Bedford Pub. Co., ca. 1888), by J. B. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dan Leno (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Jay Hickory Wood
- Memoirs of Mary Robinson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1895), by Mary Darby Robinson and Mary Elizabeth Robinson, contrib. by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907 translation), by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg text)
- The Incomparable Siddons (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1909), by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons
- The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews, the Elder, Comedian (new edition, abridged and condensed; London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860), by Mrs. Mathews, ed. by Edmund Yates, contrib. by Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Narrative of The Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq. Written by Herself (London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1829), by Charlotte Charke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Stage- and Off (London: The Leadenhall Press; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, ca. 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Kenneth Skeaping (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- On the Stage, and Off: The Brief Career of a Would Be Actor (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)
- Records of Later Life (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1882), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
- The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Ellen Terry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber
- Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (London: Pluto Press, c2016), by Gerald Horne
- Diary of a Daly Débutante: Being Passages From the Journal of A member of Augustin Daly's Famous Company of Players (New York: Duffield and Co., 1910), by Dora Knowlton Ranous
- Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (London: Pluto Press, c2016), by Gerald Horne
- Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius (London: Onwhyn, ca. 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Actors- The Paradox of Acting: Translated With Annotations From Diderot's "Paradoxe sur le Comédien" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Walter Herries Pollock, contrib. by Henry Irving (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
- Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
- Stage-Land (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1906), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Bernard Partridge (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
- Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer und Heinrich Laube im Briefwechsel: Auf Grund der Originalhandschriften Dargestellt (in German; Berlin: Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte, 1917), by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer and Heinrich Laube, ed. by Alexander von Weilen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- An Apology for The Life of George Anne Bellamy, Late of Covent Garden Theatre, Written by Herself; To Which is Annexed Her Original Letter to John Calcraft (5 volumes in 2; London: Printed for the author, 1785), by George Anne Bellamy
- A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- No Great Magic (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1963), by Fritz Leiber (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- A Maid of Many Moods (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., 1902), by Virna Sheard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life As It Is (London: Chatto and Windus, 1900), by George R. Sims (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Actor-Manager (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Comedienne (c1920), by Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, trans. by Edmund Obecny (Gutenberg text)
- Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1917), by David Graham Phillips
- Der Guckkasten: Deutsche Schauspielbilder (in German; Stuttgart: J. Engelhorn, 1922), by Herbert Eulenberg
- Der Guckkasten: Deutsche Schauspielbilder (in German; Stuttgart: J. Engelhorn, 1921), by Herbert Eulenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Records of Later Life (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1882), by Fanny Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Organization and Personnel of the Shakespearean Company (New York: Russell and Russell, 1961), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
- From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith, Written by Himself (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockborn, 1913), by Weedon Grossmith
- Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Joseph Litvak (HTML at UC Press)
- Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
- The Children's Educational Theatre (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901), by Alice Minnie Herts Heniger (page images at Google; US access only)
- Behind the Screen (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Samuel Goldwyn
- Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Nicholas Peter Ridout
- Theatre and War: Notes From the Field (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Nandita Dinesh (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
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