BY THE SAME AUTHOR

IN THE WORKHOUSE

A PLAY IN ONE ACT

The International Suffrage Shop, John St., Strand, W.C.2 (6d.)

Press Notices

"Dull talk none the less offensive because it may have beenlife-like."—Daily Mail.

"The piece though mere talk is strong talk."—Morning Advertiser.

"The play is clean and cold and humorous. The main value of the piece isthat it is a superb genre picture. One or two of the flashes from thisstrange, generally unknown world are positive sparks oflife."—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.

"I found it interesting and convincing; but then I am prepared tobelieve that our laws always will be rotten till lawyers aredisqualified from sitting in Parliament."—Reynolds'.

"The masculine portion of the audience walked with heads abashed in theentr'acte; such things had been said upon the stage that they weresuffused with blushes."—Standard.

"Delicate matters were discussed with much knowledge and sometact."—Morning Post.

"'In the Workhouse' reminds us forcibly of certain works of M. Brieux,which plead for reform by painting a terrible, and perhaps overcharged,picture of things as they are.... The presence of the idiot girl helpsto point another moral in Mrs. Nevinson's arraignment, and is thereforeartistically justifiable; and the more terrible it appears the betterhave the author and the actress done their work.... Such is the power ofthe dramatic pamphlet, sincerely written and sincerely acted. There isnothing to approach it in directness and force. It sweeps all mereprettiness into oblivion."—Pall Mall Gazette.

"It is one of the strongest indictments of our antiquated laws relatingto married women. A man seated behind the present writer called the playimmoral! and as Mrs. Nevinson says in her preface to the publishededition, the only apology she makes for its realism is that it istrue."—Christian Commonwealth.

"The whole thing left an unpleasant taste."—Academy.

Note.—Two years after this piece was given by the Pioneer Players thelaw was altered.