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Mary Broome: A Comedy in Four Acts

by Allan Monkhouse

In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid pregnant, the two families must try to combine their very different values.

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English

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English

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1912

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Allan Monkhouse

United States

Allan Noble Monkhouse was an English playwright, critic, essayist and novelist. He was born in Barnard Castle, County Durham. He worked in the cotton trade, in Manchester, and settled in Disley, Ches...

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