LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET
A DRAMA,
IN TWO ACTS.
FOUNDED ON, AND IN PART ADAPTED FROM, MISS BRADDON'S NOVEL OF THAT NAME
BY
GEORGE ROBERTS (ROBERT WALTERS)
Edited by Jennifer Carnell
Published
by The Sensation Press in 2007.
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Price: TITLE NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE Free UK postage (airmail postage extra worldwide).
A limited edition paperback of 100 numbered copies, of the 1863 play, based on the rare edition privately produced by Roberts himself. The original copy belonged to the actress Cora Houliston and is in the collection of Jennifer Carnell. Roberts's play was first performed at the St. James's Theatre in 1863, and was the most successful of the adaptations of the period, and the only one of which Mary Elizabeth Braddon herself approved.
CONTENTS
George Roberts (Robert Walters): a biographical note by Jennifer Carnell
The St. James's Theatre Production of Lady Audley's Secret
Note on the Text by Jennifer Carnell
Programme Text for the Revised 1877 Revival of Lady Audley's Secret by George
Roberts
Lady Audley's Secret by George Roberts
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Cover illustration from a photograph of the actress Cora Houliston.
2. Louisa Ruth Herbert.
3. Gaston Murray as Robert Audley.
4. Adeline Cottrell.
5. Ada Dyas by Napoleon Sarony.
6. Frank Matthews.
7. Back cover from a theatrical magazine advert for George Roberts's plays,
published in 1880.
This edition has been is limited to 100 copies, individually numbered and
signed by the editor Jennifer Carnell.
