Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Curse
Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Curse is melodrama by Edward Stirling (1807-1894)[1]
Also found, in some productions and sources as Jane Lomax, or The Mother's Crime; Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Crime; or simply as Jane Lomax.
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The original text
Based on Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Crime, the sensational 1838 novel by Horace Smith, it was first performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London ), 4 Feb 1839 - 23 Feb 1839.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1860: Produced as Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Crime by Sefton Parry on 23 February in the The Cape Town Theatre in Harrington Street , with State Secrets, or The Tailor of Tamworth (Wilks). A song by Montague Smythson and a dance by Lizzie Powell served as interlude. Thomas Baines created "beautiful new scenery representing a Snow Storm, the first of its kind attempted here", according to the Cape Town publicity. Despite it all the evening was not well attended.
1860: Produced by Sefton Parry on 1 March in the The Cape Town Theatre in Harrington Street as Jane Lomax, with An Alarming Sacrifice (Buckstone) and La Yolta Arragonaise (a dance by Lizzie Powell) as interlude.
Sources
Facsimile version of the novel, Google E-book[2]
Online Books by Edward Stirling, The Online Books Page[3]
http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/adaptations/stirling.html
https://www.umass.edu/AdelphiTheatreCalendar/msti.htm
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp.
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.78-9, 87-8.
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