John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him 9781621576198, 1621576191

Introduction -- Sins of the father -- I've broken my promise -- Old sins cast long shadows -- They idolized him --

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John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him
 9781621576198, 1621576191

Table of contents :
Introduction --
Sins of the father --
I've broken my promise --
Old sins cast long shadows --
They idolized him --
Young and pretty Maggie Mitchell --
This Harpers Ferry business --
The star sisters: Helen and Lucille Western --
I cannot stoop to that which I despise --
Almost an eunuch --
Little rehearsals: Louise Wooster --
The Southern Marseillaise --
All for love and murder: Henrietta Irving --
My goose hangs high --
True grit --
Effie and Alice --
Imagine my helping that wounded soldier --
The most beautiful woman on the American stage --
Storming about the country is sad work --
Not a secesh --
Isabel Sumner --
A gang of misfits --
Lucy Lambert Hale --
Anything that pleases you: Ella Starr --
Assassination --
I have too great a soul to die like a criminal --
Ella Starr --
Asia and Mary Ann --
"It cannot be denied": Lucy Hale --
Effie Germon --
Alice Gray --
Helen Western --
Fanny Brown --
Henrietta Irving --
Maggie Mitchell --
Ada Gray --
Isabel Sumner --
Louise Wooster --
Clara Morris --
Martha Mills --
Epilogue --
Bibliography.

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