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  • Enter Sir John

    by Clemence Dane, Helen Simpson ...
    A celebrated English stage actor must prove an ingénue innocent of murder in this classic Golden Age mystery.A touring troupe of actors has come to the English village of Peridu to stage a play featuring promising young star Martella Baring. But it's not the show that has everyone talking after Martella is found beside the body of the troupe manger's wife . . .Actor and theater owner Sir John ... Read more

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  • A Bill of Divorcement: A Play in Three Acts

    by Clemence Dane ...
    The curtain rises on the hall, obviously used as the common-room of a country house. On the right (of the audience) is the outer door and a staircase that runs down from an upper landing towards the middle of the room, half hiding what has once been a separate smaller room with a baize door at the back. In the corner a French window opens on to a snowbound garden. On the left, facing the entrance, ... Read more

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  • First the Blade: A Comedy of Growth

    by Clemence Dane ...
    "First the Blade: A Comedy of Growth" is a novel by Clemence Dane, a British author known for her work in both drama and fiction. The book is a comedic exploration of personal development and the trials of growing up.The story revolves around the character of Beatrix "Trixie" Clayton, a young woman in her early twenties who is navigating the complexities of adulthood. Trixie is an aspiring writer ... Read more

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  • Will Shakespeare: An Invention in Four Acts

    by Clemence Dane ...
    The play is structured around Shakespeare’s life in the years leading up to his rise as a playwright and his later success in London. While it is not a strict biographical account, Will Shakespeare provides a dramatic and introspective look at the man behind the iconic works. In four acts, the play alternates between Shakespeare’s personal struggles, his relationships with his family, friends, and ... Read more

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  • Third Person Singular

    by Clemence Dane ...
    Series Book 1 - The Babyon Saga
    The Babyons series consists of four long stories strung together by a supernatural thread and chronicling the family history of the Babyons over a period of about 200 years. The ghostly thread is introduced in the first story, “Third Personal Singular,” a tale of 1750. James Babyon, engaged to marry his cousin Hariot, becomes suddenly averse from her and breaks the engagement within a month of the ... Read more

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  • Sapphic Violets: Lesbian Classics Boxed Set

    Sappho, Regiment of Women, Mrs. Dalloway & Carmilla

    by Sappho, Clemence Dane, Sheridan Le Fanu ...
    "Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics" contains the beautiful verses of the versatile Classical Greek poet that have been celebrated for centuries for its lyricism and beauty. "Regiment of Women" is the debut novel of Winifred Ashton writing as Clemence Dane. First published in 1917, the novel has gained some notoriety due to its more or less veiled treatment of lesbian relationships inside and outside a ... Read more

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  • Enter Sir John

    by Clemence Dane, Helen Simpson ...
    Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson wrote this British crime tale, "Enter Sir John," in 1928. The story revolves around Martella Baring, a young actress on trial for murder, and Sir John Saumarez, a fellow actor, who takes up her case to prove her innocence. In 1932, they released the sequel film, Re-enter Sir John. The jury has found Martella Baring, a young actress, guilty of the murder of Edna ... Read more

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  • Will Shakespeare: An Invention in Four Acts

    by Clemence Dane ...
    The curtain rises on the living room of a sixteenth century cottage. The walls and ceiling are of black beams and white-washed plaster. On the left is a large oven fireplace with logs burning. Beyond it is a door. At the back is another door and a mullioned window half open giving a glimpse of bare garden hedge and winter sky. On the right wall is a staircase running down from the ceiling into the ... Read more

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  • Regiment of Women

    by Clemence Dane ...
    The school secretary pattered down the long corridor and turned into a class-room. The room was a big one. There were old-fashioned casement windows and distempered walls; the modern desks, ranged in double rows, were small and shallow, scarred, and incredibly inky. In the window-seats stood an over-populous fish-bowl, two trays of silkworms, and a row of experimental jam-pots. There were pictures ... Read more

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  • Legend

    by Clemence Dane ...
    If she had not been ill so long it would have been harder. As it was—but there’s no use in writing down that black time. Afterwards I didn’t know what to do. The pension had stopped, of course. I’d managed to teach myself typing, though Mother couldn’t be left much; but I didn’t know shorthand, and I couldn’t get work, and my money was dwindling, and I was getting scared. I was ready to worship ... Read more

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  • First the Blade: A Comedy of Growth

    by Clemence Dane ...
    ‘Once upon a time’—and we pull in our deep chairs, you quietly, I with a quick impatient jerk that scrabbles up the hearth-rug and worries your tidy soul. But you yourself have forgotten the blinds! Draw them close, lest the Zeppelins catch us at our story-telling, whilst I put the carpet to rights again and pile up logs (we sawed them ourselves, didn’t we?) upon the fire. One must save the ... Read more

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  • A Bill of Divorcement: A Play in Three Acts

    by Clemence Dane ...
    The play centers on a troubled family caught in the emotional aftermath of a divorce and the consequences of mental illness. The central character is Hilary Fairfield, a woman whose husband, who had been committed to an asylum for many years, is unexpectedly released. The reunion with her estranged husband, who is still emotionally disturbed, forces Hilary to confront past decisions and the ... Read more

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