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acknowledgments Any study of nineteenth-century theatre owes an inestimable debt of gratitude to Michael Booth. He pointed the way and has remained a friend and mentor during the long gestation period of this book. We also are immensely grateful to friends and colleagues who have encouraged and supported us: Leonard Connolly, Veronica Kelly, and David Mayer supported this project in its early stages. Tracy Davis and Bruce McConachie provided invaluable advice when an earlier version of our chapter on the Surrey and Victoria Theatres was presented at an ASTR conference and later published in Theatre Survey. Joseph Donohue helped with some enlightening comments on the final manuscript . We are particularly indebted to Tom Postlewait for his faith in the book and his enthusiastic and detailed suggestions as editor. We thank the Australia Research Council for awarding us a large research grant from 1995–1997 toward the realization of this project. We are grateful to the Society for Theatre Research (London) for a grant toward the cost of illustrations for this volume. We are also indebted to colleagues and postgraduate students in our respective departments in the Universities of New South Wales and Newcastle for the interest taken and feedback given at various seminars. We would not have been able to reach this point without the efforts and dedication of those who helped directly with our research: Jennifer Aylmer, MBE, who facilitated the work in its early stages; and our research assistants, Sonya Langelaar, Margaret Leask, Georgia Macbeth, Julie Pavlou-Kirri, Karina Smith, and Rayma Watkinson. We are also indebted to the curators, librarians and staff who unfailingly helped us mine the rich resources at their disposal. In particular we would like to thank the staff of the Harvard Theatre Collection, the Theatre Museum (London), the British Library, the Public Record Office (London), the Greater London Record Office, the Guildhall Library, the New York Public Library, the Hoblitzelle Theatre Arts Library (Texas), the John Howard Library (Southwark), the Minet Library (Lambeth), the Rose Lipman Library (Hackney), the Bancroft Library (Mile End), the Holborn Local History Library, and the Finsbury Library. ...

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