MARTIN (Helena Faucit, 1817-1898, famous Shakespearean Actress, wife of Sir Theodore)

Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Castleton, telling her that she is “at present confined to my room by that very humiliating complaint, an influenza cold. I hope to throw if off before Friday, when Mr Martin & myself will have much pleasure in accepting your kind invitation to dinner...”, 2 sides 8vo., on paper with a red monogram at the head, 31 Onslow Square, 18th March no year

Lady Martin’s ‘On Ophelia and Portia’, letters to a friend, were privately printed by her husband in 1880, followed by ‘Imogen’ in 1882 and ‘Rosalind’. Her book ‘On Some of Shakespeare’s Female Characters’ was published by Blackwood in 1885.

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Stock No:  42797      £60

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