Playbill for Great Expectations

This playbill advertises a reading by Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens’s son, from Great Expectations to raise money for the County of Monmouth’s Prisoner of War Fund. Henry was continuing his father’s tradition of reading for charities and promoting his legacy at the same time.

Playbill for Great Expectations Lyceum Theatre, Newport, about 1926
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