CONTENTS

THE BOOTH FAMILY

THE WOMEN

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE

1         Sins of the Father

2         I’ve Broken My Promise

3         Old Sins Cast Long Shadows

4         They Idolized Him

5         Young and Pretty Maggie Mitchell

6         This Harpers Ferry Business

7         The Star Sisters: Helen and Lucille Western

8         I Cannot Stoop to That Which I Despise

9         Almost an Eunuch

10       Little Rehearsals: Louise Wooster

11       The Southern Marseillaise

12       All for Love and Murder: Henrietta Irving

13       My Goose Hangs High

14       True Grit

15       Effie and Alice

16       Imagine My Helping That Wounded Soldier

17       The Most Beautiful Woman on the American Stage

18       Storming About the Country Is Sad Work

19       Not a Secesh

20       Isabel Sumner

21       A Gang of Misfits

22       Lucy Lambert Hale

23       Anything That Pleases You: Ella Starr

24       Assassination

25       I Have Too Great a Soul to Die Like a Criminal

PART TWO

26       Ella Starr

27       Asia and Mary Ann

28       “It Cannot Be Denied”: Lucy Hale

29       Effie Germon

30       Alice Gray

31       Helen Western

32       Fanny Brown

33       Henrietta Irving

34       Maggie Mitchell

35       Ada Gray

36       Isabel Sumner

37       Louise Wooster

38       Clara Morris

39       Martha Mills

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY