"Our Marie" (Marie Lloyd). With 20 Illustrations.

Bookseller Notes

An interesting copy of this memoir of the popular music-hall entertainer, by her friend - the novelist Naomi Jacob (also known as Ellington Gray). This was the author's personal copy: laid in, some interleaved, are numerous relevant clippings, transcriptions, and 7 pieces of correspondence to her (in the main addressed by her nickname, 'Mickie'), most referring to the book, its subject, or evoking the world of the music-hall more generally a couple, from Godfrey Clarke, and 'Frank', sent by old entertainers with, like the author, some level of personal acquaintance with the great lady.Born in Ripon, Jacob lived for the latter part of her life on the shores of Lake Garda, in a house known as 'Casa Mickie' (some of the correspondence is thus addressed) a member of the WSPU and the Labour Party, she spent time on the stage and acted in films (including 'The Ringer' with John Gielgud) before her writing career took over. Her appearance was flamboyantly masculine, and her partners female as well as Lloyd, among the friends gathered in her varied career were Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge, and she appeared for the defence of Hall's novel 'The Well of Loneliness' in 1928.