The Lyons Mail (play)
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The Lyons Mail is an 1877 drama by Charles Reade based on his play The Courier of Lyons (1854). The new version was written for Henry Irving for performance at the Lyceum Theatre.
Programme for Henry Irving's revival of The Lyons Mail at the Lyceum Theatre (1900)
Henry Irving as Lesurques and Dubosc - Harry Furniss (1877)
The Arrival of the Lyons Mail - from the 1908 revival at the Shaftesbury Theatre
Dubosc at bay - H. B. Irving in the 1908 revival at the Shaftesbury Theatre
Charles Reade
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Charles Reade was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.
Charles Reade
Charles Reade, portrait of him writing, by Charles Mercier, circa 1870
Theatre poster from It is never too late to mend
"Charles Reade," illustrated by Frederick Waddy (1872)