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Queen Victoria’s death in 1901 left Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) the most famous woman in the world. She’d shown herself to be a force of nature since the late 1860s, not long before France was routed in the Franco-Prussian War. She’d seen her nation humbled with the loss of Alsace and most of Lorraine, and depleted by the indemnities its conqueror exacted.
Beware of sad endings.
Harvey Denton, “The Technique of Vaudeville” (1909)1
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Woods, L. (2006). Growing Pains, 1910–1913. In: Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09739-2_4
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