*CHARLOTTE BRONTE: ACTRESS MAGGIE MITCHELL RARE LARGE 1872 JANE EYRE PROGRAM*

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She was one of the most famous star actresses of her era from the 1850s through the Civil War and onward and was reputed to be a girlfriend of John Wilkes Booth. A rare large original May 1872 Boston Theatre program for Maggie Mitchell in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, produced by Junius Brutus Booth, the brother of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth. Dimensions ten and a half by seven and three quarters inches. Edgewear and staples at left margin otherwise good. See Maggie Mitchell's extraordinary biography below.
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From Wikipedia:
Margaret Julia Mitchell (popularly known as Maggie Mitchell) (1832–1918) was an American actress, born in New York.[1] She made her first regular appearance as Julia in The Soldier's Daughter at the Chambers Street Theatre in 1851. The parts in which she was best liked were Jane Eyre, Mignon, Little Barefoot, and Fanchon the Cricket. An early marriage in the 1850s produced her son Julian Mitchell. She was married to her second husband Henry Paddock, her manager, in 1868, and they had two children Fanchon and Harry M. Paddock. They divorced twenty years later and she was wed to Charles Abbott, and retired from the stage to live in New York. Notably she was the mother of Julian P. Mitchell, a musical comedy director who directed the 1903 Broadway production of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz and was later associated with Weber & Fields and Florenz Ziegfeld.[2] [3] She performed as a star actress from the 1850s through the 1880s and acted with Edwin Forrest and Edwin and John Wilkes Booth. After her death in 1918 she was buried in Green-Wood cemetery in Brooklyn.
Jane Eyre
/
ɛər
/
(originally published as
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
) is a
novel
by
English writer
Charlotte Brontë
, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by
Smith, Elder & Co.
of
London
. The first American edition was published the following year by
Harper & Brothers
of New York.
[1]
Jane Eyre
is a
Bildungsroman
which follows the experiences of its
eponymous heroine
, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of
Thornfield Hall
.
[2]
The novel revolutionised
prose fiction
by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate
first-person narrative
, where actions and events are coloured by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness", and the literary ancestor of writers like
Proust
and
Joyce
.
[3]
The book contains elements of
social criticism
with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core, and it is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane's individualistic character and how the novel approaches the topics of
class
,
sexuality
,
religion
, and
feminism
.
[4]
[5]
It, along with
Jane Austen
's
Pride and Prejudice
, is one of the most famous romance novels of all time.