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Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life

Chapter 43: Behind the Footlights TWO EDITIONS
By Mrs. Alec-Tweedie
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The memoir collects reminiscences and informal essays by a widowed writer covering more than a decade of her life, moving from childhood and girlhood into married life, widowhood, and professional work. It blends personal anecdote with practical reflections on journalism, bookmaking, and the literary scene, plus travel sketches of Norway, Mexico, Iceland and North America. Interludes consider painters, sculptors, theatre, social customs such as public and private dinners, and observations on women’s roles. Arranged in themed chapters and jottings, the book mixes candid domestic detail, cultural commentary, and portrait sketches of contemporaries, concluding with reflective notes on work, adversity, and memory.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Behind the Footlights
TWO EDITIONS

Morning Post.—“It ought to have an unusually large circulation in comparison with other books which describe the inner life of the stage. Mrs. Alec Tweedie touches the moral aspect of the acting life with delicacy and reticence.... Her pictures of rehearsals are realistic. She has many delightful anecdotes.”

Daily Express.—“A gossiping encyclopædia of the stage. If there is anything about the stage that is not touched upon, it is because it is not worth troubling about, and there is not a dull page in the book from start to finish, and scarcely one which is not brightened by an anecdote.”

Standard.—“‘Behind the Footlights’ contains a greater amount of direct personal information concerning leading contemporary actors, actresses, managers, and dramatists than can be found in any number of recently published books about the theatre in England.... She must be thanked for a singularly clever and entertaining volume.”

 

JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD, VIGO STREET, W.