Adventures of a Victorian actor
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A Woman's Life in the Victorian Era
The author talks about broadway in the nineteenth century. What did emily make of it? She absolutely loved it. I mean, as soon as she r ved shelit, within hours she'd taken herself off to delmonico's,. And she was eating oysters and champagne. The idea that you could just set off without a return ticket, no idea when you were coming back is so different to what's expected today. So this left emily free. It freed her up when it came to being a mother.
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