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titled "To Miss Vera Beringer". In 1933 Vera Beringer and Madge Kendal appeared together as speakers in London, advocating for male teachers and headmasters at boys' schools.
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Though some sources that give 1879 as the year, Vera Beringer's birth was registered in London in 1878; ''Civil Registration Birth Index'', via Ancestry.com
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The Blue-stocking: Adapted by Vera Beringer and Mesley Down, from Molière's Comedy "Les Femmes Savantes"
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Beringer wrote at least nineteen plays, often under the pen name "Henry Seton", including
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Vera Beringer was born in London in 1878, the younger daughter of German-born pianist
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The London Stage 1910-1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel
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The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel
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The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel
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Beringer became internationally famous in childhood for originating the role of
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The last pre-Raphaelite: A record of the life and writings of Ford Madox Ford
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on the London stage. Later she was a playwright, sometimes using the byline
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in her later years, and died in 1964, aged 85 years, at a nursing home in
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Child Labor in the British Victorian Entertainment Industry: 1875–1914
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in 1938, and the sisters gave further Shakespeare performances during
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919)
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on the London stage in 1888. She was coached in stagecraft by
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Carpenter, Angelica Shirley; Shirley, Jean (1 January 1990).
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West End Women: Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962
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Dramatic Notes: An Illustrated Year-book of Thestage
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Dramatic Notes: An Illustrated Year-book of Thestage
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A young white woman, posed with a fan, holding one side of her skirt with her other hand; she is wearing a loose-fitting dress with round baggy upper sleeves and an open neckline; her hair is long and loose
Aimée Daniell Beringer
Esme Beringer
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Oscar Beringer
Aimée Daniell Beringer
Esme Beringer
Ford Madox Ford
Elsie Martindale

Esme
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Madge Kendal
Romeo and Juliet
World War I
Hamlet
World War II
Morley Roberts
Molière
Les Femmes Savantes
Lewis Carroll
limerick
Hove
Brighton




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