[Theatre History]. Mathews, Mrs. [Anne Jackson. 1782? - 1869] - TEA - TABLE TALK, Enobled Actresses, and Other Miscellanies. In Two Volumes

London: Thomas Cautley Newby, Publisher, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, 1857. 1st Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Yellow eps. 2 volumes: vi, 359, [1 (blank)]; [ii] - v, 347, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 4-7/8" Anne Jackson was the 2nd wife of actor Charles Mathews. An actress herself, she was the half sister to the better known actress Frances Maria Kelly. Their only child was Charles James Mathews, who became a successful actor in turn, and whose biography was written by Charles Dickens Jr. [1879]. Contents: V.1. What is a magazine? -- Ennobled actresses. -- Tea-table talk. -- The cranks of Christmas tide. -- Lose thoughts on monomania. -- Theodore Edward Hook. -- Our times (1841) -- Marked men. -- Un reduit champétre; or, the miseries of a cake-house. -- The science of good living in Paris. -- Our fellow men. -- A grave gossip upon Christian names. V.2. Murder and mystery. -- Bachelor's wives. -- Change of scene. -- Anecdotes of actors. -- Actors at home. -- A chapter for ladies: my fortieth summer. -- To the messieurs of the diurnal press. General wear, slight cock, backstrips a bit sunned. Period pos to ffep. Vol I with stain to front board lower corner. An Abt VG set.

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