The Humbling of Meredith Martin

What does a girl have to do to become a leading light on the London stage?

Meredith has sacrificed everything - family and the comforts and security of home - to become an actress. She has done her time in the provinces, she's toured the country from tip to toe, she's set the West End alight with her ground-breaking performances. And yet here she is, in 1906, finding herself yet again facing a void of no work and no prospects.

Could it be her haughty demeanour? Or her refusal to become a frie...