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The Memories of Rose Eytinge: Being Recollections & Observations of Men, Women, and Events, during Half a Century

Eytinge, Rose. The Memories of Rose Eytinge: Being Recollections & Observations of Men, Women, and Events, during Half a Century. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1905.
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Abstract

The Memories of Rose Eytinge: Being Recollections & Observations of Men, Women, and Events, during Half a Century is the memoir of actress Rose Eytinge. Eytinge describes her start in the theater in Albany, NY and her work on the stage in Boston and New York City. She gives a personal account of her acquaintance with notable theater and literary figures including Pfaffians who gathered at the West 42nd Street Coterie in New York and at Bulfinch Place in Boston.

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Booth, Edwin [pages: 28]

Eytinge originally met Edwin Booth while working in Albany, and later in New York that he offered her the part of Fiordilisa in A Fool's Revenge.

Daly, John [pages: 95]

Refers to Augustin Daly as her "fast friend" for arranging the details of her voyage to Europe "in just twelve hours from the time I had settled to go."

Fiske, Stephen [pages: 21]

Mentions Stephen Fiske as one of the "clever and distinguished" men who frequented Ada Clare's Sunday evening parties at her home on West 42nd Street in New York (21).

Sothern, Edward [pages: 60(ill.)]

Mentions Sothern as one of the actors Eytinge met at Bulfinch Place in Boston (60). She refers to this place as "the actors' Mecca" (57) and says that at supper "there was talk, — that sort of talk where every one who talked had something to say, a condition to which there are unfortunately many exceptions" (60).

Whitman, Walt [pages: 22]

Whitman is identified by Eytinge as part of the group who met at Ada Clare's house on West 42nd Street on Sunday evenings. She characterizes these meetings with the phrase "this was Bohemia" (22).

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