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A Player and a Gentleman : The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor by Amy E. Hughes; Naomi J. Stubbs is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Hardworking actor, playwright, and stage manager Harry Watkins (1825–94) was also a prolific diarist. For fifteen years Watkins regularly recorded the plays he saw, the roles he performed, the books he read, and his impressions of current events. Performing across the U.S., Watkins collaborated with preeminent performers and producers, recording his successes and failures as well as his encounters with celebrities such as P. T. Barnum, Junius Brutus Booth, Edwin Forrest, Anna Cora Mowatt, and Lu
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- Author
- Amy E. Hughes; Naomi J. Stubbs
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780472130917
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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