| | 7 | Author: | Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SUSAN'S impulse was toward the stage. It had become a
definite ambition with her, the stronger because Spenser's
jealousy and suspicion had forced her to keep it a secret, to
pretend to herself that she had no thought but going on
indefinitely as his obedient and devoted mistress. The
hardiest and best growths are the growths inward—where they
have sun and air from without. She had been at the theater
several times every week, and had studied the performances at
a point of view very different from that of the audience. It
was there to be amused; she was there to learn. Spenser and
such of his friends as he would let meet her talked plays and
acting most of the time. He had forbidden her to have women
friends. "Men don't demoralize women; women demoralize each
other," was one of his axioms. But such women as she had a
bowing acquaintance with were all on the stage—in comic
operas or musical farces. She was much alone; that meant many
hours every day which could not but be spent by a mind like
hers in reading and in thinking. Only those who have observed
the difference aloneness makes in mental development, where
there is a good mind, can appreciate how rapidly, how broadly,
Susan expanded. She read plays more than any other kind of
literature. She did not read them casually but was always
thinking how they would act. She was soon making in
imagination stage scenes out of dramatic chapters in novels as
she read. More and more clearly the characters of play and
novel took shape and substance before the eyes of her fancy.
But the stage was clearly out of the question. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 9 | Author: | Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SUSAN'S impulse was toward the stage. It had become a definite ambition with her,
the stronger because Spenser's jealousy and suspicion had forced her to keep it
a secret, to pretend to herself that she had no thought but going on
indefinitely as his obedient and devoted mistress. The hardiest and best growths
are the growths inward—where they have sun and air from without. She
had been at the theater several times every week, and had studied the
performances at a point of view very different from that of the audience. It was
there to be amused; she was there to learn. Spenser and such of his friends as
he would let meet her talked plays and acting most of the time. He had forbidden
her to have women friends. "Men don't demoralize women; women demoralize each
other," was one of his axioms. But such women as she had a bowing acquaintance
with were all on the stage—in comic operas or musical farces. She was
much alone; that meant many hours every day which could not but be spent by a
mind like hers in reading and in thinking. Only those who have observed the
difference aloneness makes in mental development, where there is a good mind,
can appreciate how rapidly, how broadly, Susan expanded. She read plays more
than any other kind of literature.
She did not read them casually but was always
thinking how they would act. She was soon making in imagination stage scenes out
of dramatic chapters in novels as she read. More and more clearly the characters
of play and novel took shape and substance before the eyes of her fancy. But the
stage was clearly out of the question. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Driven From Home | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A BOY of sixteen, with a small gripsack in
his hand, trudged along the country road. He
was of good height for his age, strongly built,
and had a frank, attractive face. He was
naturally of a cheerful temperament, but at present
his face was grave, and not without a shade
of anxiety. This can hardly be a matter of
surprise when we consider that he was thrown
upon his own resources, and that his available
capital consisted of thirty-seven cents in
money, in addition to a good education and
a rather unusual amount of physical strength.
These last two items were certainly valuable,
but they cannot always be exchanged for the
necessaries and comforts of life. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 18 | Author: | Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Triumph of the Egg | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MY father was, I am sure, intended by nature to be a cheerful,
kindly man. Until he was thirty-four years old he worked as a
farm-hand for a man named Thomas Butterworth whose place lay near the
town of Bidwell, Ohio. He had then a horse of his own and on Saturday
evenings drove into town to spend a few hours in social intercourse
with other farm-hands. In town he drank several glasses of beer and
stood about in Ben Head's saloon—crowded on Saturday evenings with
visiting farm-hands. Songs were sung and glasses thumped on the bar.
At ten o'clock father drove home along a lonely country road, made his
horse comfortable for the night and himself went to bed, quite happy in
his position in life. He had at that time no notion of trying to rise
in the world. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 20 | Author: | Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888: Anonymous review | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "Little Women" on the Stage | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At last there is to be a stage version of Little Women,
that story which since its publication in 1868 has appealed to so
many generations of readers. The dramatisation has been made by
Miss Jessie Bonstelle (Mrs. Alexander Stuart), who for eight years
has been working to obtain the necessary permission. The
copyrights were in the possession of Miss Alcott's two nephews, the
famous twins, "Daisy" and "Demi" (John and Demijohn), sons of Miss
Alcott's last surviving sister, Mrs. Anna B. Pratt, to whom one of
the editions, published by Little, Brown and Company, in 1889, was
dedicated in these words: "The Sole Surviving Sister of Louisa M.
Alcott, and Her Never Failing Help, Comforter and Friend from Birth
to Death." In Boston the two Pratt boys when growing up were
pointed out as the famous twins, just as Vivian Burnett was pointed
out as Little Lord Fauntleroy. There has been a certain New
England prejudice against making a play of the story, although Miss
Alcott herself was fond of the theatre and actually wrote herself
a short comedy which was produced at the Boston Theatre. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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