The Position of Peggy Harper

Leonard Merrick (1864 - 1939) was an English novelist. Although largely forgotten today, he was widely admired by his peers, J. M. Barrie called Merrick the "novelist's novelist."
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An excerpt from the Introduction by Arthur Pinero. ...The story of Peggy Harper, as the reader will soon find, is a simple affair. I don't propose to retell it here. As a matter of fact, any ordinarily equipped story-teller desiring to treat of the theatre could, without a great expenditure of mental effort,...