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• Perdita : a romance in biography (Hutchinson, 1908), by Stanley V. Makower (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Perdita : a romance in biography (D. Appleton, 1908), by Stanley V. Makower (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A century of famous actresses, 1750-1850 (Mills & Boon, ltd., 1913), by Harold Simpson and Charles Braun (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Bristol stage : its story (Bristol Printing & Pub., 1919), by G. Rennie Powell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Helena Faucit (Lady Martin) (W. Blackwood, 1900), by Theodore Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)

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• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• Colley Cibber. (Grolier Society, 1900), by Colley Cibber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• Tragedy queens of the Georgian era (Methuen & co., 1908), by John Fyvie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• Colley Cibber ... (The Grolier Society, 1900), by Colley Cibber, James Wright, Robert William Lowe, and Tony Aston (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)

• 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
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)
• Memoirs of George Fred. Cooke, Esq., late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (Printed for Henry Colburn, 1813), by William Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practically true (W. Heinemann, 1927), by Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In and about Drury Lane, and other papers : reprinted from the pages of the 'Temple bar' magazine (R. Bentley, 1881), by Dr. Doran (page images at HathiTrust)
• An actor's story. (Chapman & Hall, 1909), by Bransby Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oscar Asche, his life (Hurst & Blackett, 1929), by Oscar Asche (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Behind the footlights, or, The stage as I knew it (F. Warne, 1885), by W. C. Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British theater : containing the lives of the English dramatic poets : with an account of their plays : together with the lives of most principal actors, as well as poets : to which is prefixed, A short view of the rise and progress of the English stage. (R. Baldwin, 1752), by W. R. Chetwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bristol stage : its story (Bristol Printing & Pub., 1919), by G. Rennie Powell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Itinerant; or, Memoirs of an actor ... (Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1808), by S. W. Ryley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft on and off the stage (R. Bentley, 1888), by Squire Bancroft and Marie Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth at last (Little, Brown, 1924), by Charles Hawtrey and W. Somerset Maugham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Charles Macklin, comedian : with the dramatic characters, manners, anecdotes, &c. of the age in which he lived : forming an history of the stage during almost the whole of the last century and a chronological list of all the parts played by him (Printed for James Asperne at the Bible, Crown, and Constitution, Cornhill ; by Thomas Maiden, Sherbourn Lane, 1804), by Charles Macklin and University Drama Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dan Leno (Methuen, 1905), by Jay Hickory Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• [Edmund Kean]. ([ca. 1900?], 1900), by Egan Pierce and Hallie Flanagan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A narrative of the life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (youngest daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq.) containing : I. an account of her birth, education, and mad pranks committed in her youth, II. her coming on the stage, success there, and sundry theatrical anecdotes, III. her marriage in mens cloaths, and being belov'd by a lady of great fortune, who intended to marry her, V. her gentleman to a certain peer, VI. her commencing strolling-player with various and surprizing vicissitudes of fortune, during nine years peregrination, VII. her turning pastry cook, &c in Wales, with several extremely humorous and interesting occurrences (Printed for W. Reeve, in Fleet-Street, A. Dodd, in the Strand, and E. Cook, at the Royal Enchange, 1755), by Charlotte Charke, E. Cook, Anne Dodd, and W. Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)

• The plays of William Shakespeare (J. S. Virtue, 1892), by William Shakespeare and Thomas Keightley (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber (J.C. Nimmo, 1889), by Colley Cibber, Anthony Ashton, James Wright, and Robert William Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber (AMS Press, 1966), by Colley Cibber, Tony Aston, James Wright, and Robert William Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)

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