Jessie Brown;
JESSIE BROWN; OR, THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. A Drama, IN THREE ACTS. BY DION BOUCICAULT, AUTHOR OF London Assurance, Old Heads and Young Hearts, The Irish Heiress, Used Up, The Corsican Brothers, Love and Honey, The Willow Copse, The life of an Actress, The Phantom, Andy Blake, The Chameleon, Victor and Hortense, Genevieve, The Young Actress, Louis the Eleventh, The Knight of Arva, Faust and Marguerite, Janet Pride, George D'Arville, The Poor of New York, Belphegor, Napoleon's Old Guard, Love in a Mate, Alma Mater, A Lover by Proxy, Don Caesar de Bazan, Giralda, Sixtus the Fifth, The Prima Donna, Bluebelle, The Cat Changed into a Woman, Una, The Fox Hunt.&c. &c. THOMAS HAILES LACY, 89, STRAND, {Opposite Southampton Street, Covent Garden Market,) LONDON. JESSIE BROWN, As performed at the Theatre Royal,Plymouth, November, 1858. A NEW, GREAT, AND ORIGINAL PLAY, Which has been several weeks in preparation, founded on the beautiful episode in the present Indian War, and written by Dion BOUCICAULT, Esq., for Wallack's Theatre, New York, where it was played upwards of 80 nights, under the title of JESSIE BROWN; OR, THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW - The New Scenery by Mr.WILLIAM CHANNING-Costumes by Mrs. WATSON. The following account is taken from the letters of a lady, one of the rescued on the 26th September, when Lucknow was relieved by the forces under Sir Colin Campbell. " Death stared us in the face. We were fully persuaded that in twenty-four hours all would be over. The Engineers had said so. and all knew the worst.
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