Dawes, Edwin A. & Michael E. Dawes:
John Henry Anderson - The Great Wizard of the North ©2014 Edwin A. Dawes, Michael E. Dawes, Conjuring Arts Research Center, NY Hardcover, no dj, 303 pages ISBN: 0-9742551-3-0 |
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Comments: Limited edition of 400 copies
Contents (from book ToC):
ix Foreword
xi Acknowledgements
xiii Abbreviations and Notations
xiii Listings of Engagements
xiii Variances from Constance Pole Bayer
1 Chapter 1 The True Mrs. Anderson
5 Chapter 2 Some Aspects of Anderson’s Early Career 1836-1846
15 Chapter 3 Who Was Hannah Anderson?
21 Chapter 4 Anderson’s European Tour and Return 1846-1848
27 Chapter 5 Eliza Poppleton (née Smith) Another ‘Mrs’ Anderson
33 Chapter 6 Anderson and His Royal Balmoral Marquee
41 Chapter 7 The Busy Nine-Month Period of 1850-1851
45 Chapter 8 Anderson’s First American Tour 1851-1853
51 Chapter 9 Anderson in Britain 1854-1857
65 Chapter 10 Australia 1858-1859
73 Chapter 11 Anderson in California 1859-1860
79 Chapter 12 Antonia Leuger and Daughter Mary Anderson
Shakespearean Actress
85 Chapter 13 Anderson’s Second American Tour 1860-1862
89 Chapter 14 John Heruy Anderson Junior in Britain in 1862-1863
93 Chapter 15 John Henry Anderson Junior in America 1863-1878
99 Chapter 16 Anderson in Britain 1863-1866
109 Chapter 17 Anderson in Britain 1866-1872
121 Chapter 18 The Secessions and Anderson’s Final Years 1872-1874
135 Chapter 19 Helen(a) Elizabeth Anderson
143 Chapter 20 Margaret Foote née Wilson
147 Chapter 21 Alfred Miles Holmes and the Anderson Show 1874-1880
163 Chapter 22 The Marriage of Alfred Miles Holmes
169 Chapter 23 Alfred Miles Holmes and Lena 1880-1897
179 Chapter 24 Enter Harry Bosworth
183 Chapter 25 The Sisters Anderson Louise, Lizzie, Ada and Sophie
— Wonderland
193 Chapter 26 Lizzie Anderson and American Mysteries 1876-1878
197 Chapter 29 Flora Macdonald Frances Anderson: 1852/53-1870
203 Chapter 30 Oscar Longhurst Anderson 1848-1897
207 Chapter 31 Columbia Harriett Anderson 1851-1915
213 Chapter 32 Alice Hannah Anderson (Johnson) 1847-1913
221 Chapter 33 Philip Prentice Anderson (Hind)—Rubini: 1844-1920
239 Epilogue: Anderson A Final View
241 Anderson’s Known Engagements in Britain 1836-1874
263 Alfred Holmes’s Known Engagements in Britain 1874-1897
275 Anderson versus the Bill-Posters
279 Summary of Differences between C.P Bayer Statements and Dawes
Research
291 References and Bibliography
293 Index
301 Index of Illustrations