THE

LIFE OF EDMUND KEAN.

VOL. I.

OF

EDMUND KEAN.

From Published and Original Sources.

BY

F. W. HAWKINS.

"In all romance, in all literature, there is nothing more melancholy, nothing more
utterly tragic, than the story of the career of Edmund Kean. So bitter and weary a
struggle for a chance, so splendid and bewildering a success, so sad a waste of genius
and fortune, so lamentable a fall, can hardly be found among all the records of the
follies and sins and misfortunes of genius."-Morning Star.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND.

1869.

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210. e. 287.

LONDON:

SAVILL, EDWARDS AND CO., PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

ΤΟ

JOHN OXENFORD, Esq.,

IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE

OF NEVER FAILING KINDNESS AND ENCOURAGEMENT,

THESE VOLUMES

ARE

Inscribed.