• Fig. 20. A homemade program for amateur parlor theatricals at Sarah Gooll Putnam’s residence in Boston. The amateur performers used stage names to enhance the evening’s amusement. In Içi On Parle Français, Putnam’s friend Nelly Perkins played Major Rattan and is billed as “Mr. H. Perkinski”; for The Greatest Plague in Life, Putnam herself played Grandmother Bustle and is listed as “Miss Sali Puttenhami.” From Sarah Gooll Putnam Diaries, April 1870. Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Program for parlor theatricals (from Sarah Gooll Putnam Diaries), performed at home of Putnam

From Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75 by Michael D'Alessandro

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  • American Studies
  • Class Studies
  • Theater and Performance
  • Literary Studies:American Literature
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  • 1870
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