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Heroines of the Modern Stage

Chapter 20: Transcriber’s Notes
By Forrest Izard
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About This Book

A series of concise biographies and critical sketches of leading stage actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter reconstructs an individual career—early life and training, notable roles and acting style, public reception, and professional achievements—covering both European figures and American performers. The volume closes with brief accounts of additional contemporary American actresses and is supplemented by portraits, an appendix, and a bibliography that document sources and illustrate theatrical contexts.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed. In particular, “to-day”, “today”, and similar words were printed both ways. When hyphenated versions of those words appeared at the ends of lines, the hyphens were retained.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. All references to pages in the Preface were incorrect; the links have been adjusted to point to the first page of the Preface.

Page 33, Footnote 34: Uses both “Tisbe” and “Tisbé”.

Page 172, Footnote 107: “I am unable to bring me a present” probably is a misprint for “bring you a present”.

Page 198, Footnote 125: “Sogno” was misprinted as “Songo”; changed here.

The Index refers to footnotes by the pages on which they originally appeared. In versions of this eBook that use hyperlinks, those references remain page-oriented; they do not link to specific footnotes.

Footnotes originally appeared at the bottoms of pages and were numbered within chapters. In this eBook, they have been moved to the end, following the Index, and renumbered in a single sequence.