Excerpt from Rachel: Her Stage Life and Her Real Life Theatrical biographies, in England at all events, are usually written either by actors and actresses or by their stage-struck admirers. The impression which they convey (whether accidentally or by design) is not so much that all the world is a stage as that the stage is the only part of the world which is of much importance. The picture drawn is apt to lack pro portion, and to be a picture, as it were, of the theatre surrounded by other things, and of actors and actresses surrounded. By other people. In the case of the majority of actors and actresses it is, perhaps, necessary to stand at the point of View from which the picture assumes that shape in order to persuade oneself that it is worth while to write their lives. Examples illustrative of the truth of the remark will occur to every one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.