The Ladies' Club

The Ladies' Club is a burletta in two acts by Mark Lemon (1809-1870)[1]

In some sources actor/playwright William Cullenford is named as co-author.

Not to be confused with The Ladies Club, the 1986 American film[2]

The original text

A parody on the "Woman's Rights" movement, the play was

Published in London by J. Pattie, in Pattie's Universal Stage (Vol 1, no. 9), 1840 and by T.H. Lacy, 1850 (Lacy's acting edition of plays, vol. 13, no. 189).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1867: Performed by Mrs Duret and the female actresses of the company by the Le Roy-Duret Company company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 10 October, with Crossing the Line, or Crowded Houses (Almar, the play fancifully billed as †ing the ———) and a dance by Miss Clara.

Sources

https://www.worldcat.org/title/ladies-club-a-burletta-in-two-acts/oclc/8881493?referer=br&ht=edition

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Ladies_Club.html?id=KeGnjgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lemon

Leona W. Fisher. 1988, "Mark Lemon's Farces on the 'Woman Question' ", Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 28, No. 4, Nineteenth Century - Autumn), pp. 649-670

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.230, 234

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