found: Work cat.: Whitworth, R.P. Velvet and rags, 1886?:(short stories) t.p. (a series of Australian theatrical stories)
found: Martin, V. Confessions of Edward Day : a novel, ©2009(summary: New York, in the 1970s: rents were cheap, love was free, and the explosion of theater venues off and off-off Broadway afforded aspiring actors the opportunity to work for nothing. After Edward Day joins his fellow actors for a summer weekend on the Jersey shore, his life is never the same)
found: Bulgakov, M. Black snow : a theatrical novel, ©2014.
found: Delannoy, B. A thespian detective and other theatrical stories, 1899.
found: Hughes, V. Peggy plays off-Broadway, 1962(series: Peggy Lane theater stories)
found: Best theatre stories, 1968(subj. hdg.: Theater--Fiction; contents: The trouper / Jack Iams -- Providence and the guitar / R.L. Stevenson -- Reginald's drama / Saki -- Shot actress-full story / H.E. Bates -- Glory in the daytime / by Dorothy Parker -- The worst thing of all / Nadine Gordimer -- Mrs. Joseph Porter over the way / Charles Dickens -- Flotsam and jetsam / W. Somerset Maugham --The adventures of a strolling player / Oliver Goldsmith -- Norbert / Kenneth Campbell -- The memento / O. Henry -- There's no business like no business / Barry Davis -- Ashes of roses / Noel Coward)
found: Pye, Deborah Kelso. "Irreproachable women and patient workers" : representations of the actress in Victorian prose, 2000:p. 3 (Victorian theatrical fiction) p. 10 (Victorian theatrical novels; Victorian novels of the theatre; represent actresses as enjoying the power their professional abilities give them over the emotional responses of others; texts featuring actresses) p. 15 (Chapter four focuses on fictional actresses who depart from the domestic ideal) p. 17 (Victorian theatrical novels and memoirs reflect contemporary class as well as gender issues. Most commonly, these texts describe theatres as dirty, tawdry, and evil-smelling; stage managers appear driven by a concern for profit, not artistic creation. However, at the same time, they bear witness to the gentrification of the theatre) p. 26 (Victorian actress novels) p. 28 (closure in a Victorian theatrical novel comes not with an actress's attainment of professional success, but with her marrying and leaving the stage) p. 30 (theatrical novels; fictional representations of actresses) p. 36 (Geraldine Jewsbury's theatrical fiction; Jewsbury (1812-1880) was one of the first novelists to depict a poor but virtuous woman taking to the stage and retaining her virtue intact; The Half Sisters (1848), Jewsbury's most fully developed theatre novel)
found: Novel, fall 1994, via JSTOR, viewed on Aug. 4, 2019:p. 72 (the Victorian theatrical novel; Victorian novels set in and around the London theater; novels about the theater; the novel's theatrical milieu; theater novels; many essentially domestic novels of the Victorian period, quite enough to form a respectable sub-genre, feature actress heroines who do make a successful transition from stage to home, carrying with them the selfless quality that marks their characters; While secondary actresses in these novels are almost always corrupt, selfish, and vulgar exhibitionists, the "best" actresses (talent and goodness go hand in hand) transcend the stage stereotype) p. 73 (Geraldine Jewsbury's The Half Sisters, a typical theater novel; sub-genre of the Victorian novel; theater novels' staging of femininity anticipates feminist theorists' use of the concept of performance to undermine stable categories of gender)
found: The Dickensian, winter 2006:p. 256 (Nicholas Nickleby; theatrical novel of theatrical London)
