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Loading... Mrs. Caudle's curtain lectures (1866)by Douglas Jerrold
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Couldn't finish it. The premise is supposed to be a shrewish wife nagging her husband and that was supposed to be humorous. Honestly, I think she had a point. He was an asshole who went out drinking until the wee hours, had wild parties in their home when she was gone to her mother's and then begrudged her adequate money to clothe their children. I would have given him a lot worse than she did! ( ) no reviews | add a review
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A title written by Douglas William Jerrold, who was an English dramatist and writer. In 1821 a comedy that he had written at the age of fourteen was brought out at Sadler's Wells theatre under the title More Frightened than Hurt. Other plays followed, and in 1825 he was employed for a few pounds weekly to produce dramas and farces to order for Davidge of the Coburg theatre. He continued to write sparkling comedies till 1854. Meanwhile he was writing for numerous periodicals, and gradually became a contributor to the Monthly Magazine, Blackwood's, the New Monthly, and the Athenaeum. Douglas Jerrold is now perhaps better known from his reputation as a brilliant wit in conversation than from his writings. As a dramatist he was very popular, though his plays have not seen the stage. No library descriptions found. |
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