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List of Illustrations | p. xii |
Notes on the Text and Acknowledgements | p. xvi |
Rumours of a Death Foretold | p. 1 |
A Story in a Book | p. 5 |
The Terrys | p. 8 |
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall | p. 16 |
Heaven and Holland Park | p. 22 |
England's Michelangelo | p. 26 |
The Kingdom of Pattledom | p. 29 |
A Marriage Is Arranged and a Deed of Separation Signed | p. 35 |
The Kate Terry Valse | p. 47 |
Found Drowned | p. 52 |
Happiness for a Time | p. 54 |
All Change | p. 63 |
A Failure to Be Proud Of | p. 66 |
Men! | p. 79 |
What's in a Name? | p. 91 |
Entrances and Exits | p. 98 |
Their Coronation | p. 108 |
Our Lady of the Lyceum | p. 119 |
Interval: Irving on Holiday | p. 127 |
His Shylock | p. 129 |
Shakespeare's Lovers | p. 135 |
Children! | p. 143 |
Our American Cousins | p. 158 |
From Malvolio to Mephistopheles | p. 170 |
Death of a Husband, Death of a Lover | p. 179 |
Her Lady Macbeth | p. 193 |
Ted and Edy and Harry and Laurence | p. 202 |
All Is True | p. 220 |
After the Shooting | p. 227 |
Counter Attractions | p. 234 |
One More Laurel Wreath | p. 243 |
Mixed Fortunes | p. 247 |
The Irish Pretender | p. 266 |
Wishful Thinking | p. 276 |
Choices | p. 284 |
Confusions | p. 295 |
For Love or Money | p. 303 |
Made in Heaven | p. 321 |
A Sea of Troubles: Helgeland and Hungerheart | p. 333 |
The End of Irving | p. 354 |
Women! | p. 367 |
Brothers | p. 392 |
Family Affairs | p. 409 |
Masks and Faces | p. 435 |
Not Quite Alone | p. 470 |
The Long Game of Patience | p. 478 |
An Occasion | p. 493 |
For Friendship's Sake | p. 513 |
Good Night Unto You All | p. 531 |
White Candle, Aged Face | p. 553 |
An Outline of Sources | p. 575 |
Select Bibliography | p. 585 |
Index | p. 591 |
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Excerpted from A Strange Eventful History. By Michael Holroyd.
Copyright © 2009 by Michael Holroyd.
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in hardcover, and by Picador in trade paperback.
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