[ Katharine Parry Collins; women's suffrage; authorial inscription and annotation throughout ] Two Homemade Booklets in typescript (very short plays)
Author:
Katharine Parry Collins [Katharine Kate Parry Frye born Katherine Parry Collins (1878 –1959) actress, diarist and suffragist.]
Publication details:
(In her hand; front cover of [Booklet One]) To be presented at A Village Pastoral Wednesday August 19th 1942 by Wooburn folk and Wooburn [young?].
£450.00
SKU: 23095
Two booklets, blank paper wraps, stapled. [One] 4pp., obl. 8vo, inscription front cover as above, numerous stage directions, additions and corrections in the author's hand, sl. foxed, entitled Prologue. | Time is Here, dialogue involving Young Time and Old Time, discussing the past and present (wartime) of Wooburn Green and England. [TWO] 7pp., obl. 8vo, numerous stage directions, additions and corrections in the author's hand, titles Time is with us. | Second Play time. Two Old Timers. | The Itinerant Masons | A spirit fantasy in carved oak, characters Brick and Stone again with dialogue spanning the centuries. Items rescued from the archive of W. Macqueen-Pope, theatre historian.
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