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Miss Anna Dickinson and the Critics
April 19, 1877 issue

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Miss Anna Dickinson, after having enjoyed considerable success as a lecturer for ten or twelve years, determined, according to her own account, to appear on the stage in order to escape the hardships of the continual travel which lecturing necessitates, and composed the play in which she was to make her debut. She has now been acting for about a year in various parts of the U.S. The newspapers have condemned both the play and the acting somewhat unmercifully, and, finding herself the other night playing to a house only one-third filled, she lost her temper, and, coming before the curtain after the performance in her stage robes, she gave her critics a severe scolding which lasted an hour.

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DICKINSON, Anna; LECTURERS; ACTRESSES; CRITICS; THEATER; UNITED States
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