THE AUTHOR OF DIANA
'..Miss Cicely -Hamilton,:, author of "Diana' of Dobson's," is a till, slender, fragile: girl, with; largo• light-blue _oyes, dreamy. cxprcs : sion;"aad-a.'mass:of --fair-hair twisted loosely round.;a :classically-shaped head. '"Diana", is; her first drama, her/previous effort being a'c'urtiin-riiscr,' '.'The Sixth Commauduient.". ;"Diana" was.written by fits^and'.starts.-Tho! whole. story* was .conceived in her .•mirid..beforo;slie'took: lip her /pen.. /At present /her method: inclines' to working from -the end backwards,, and each act is nandlcd in Ithat fashion,; /starting, at-the -end: .and -'going ;through again. Mostly Miss Hamilton writes, in the evenings; but it is a case of returning to.it amid:other duties,' for ; she is on-'.'the s'tnge.'/Shq lias-not, been .a-,- shop-girl,' as .seme have suggested. /As a matter of fact, after .the: play was finished, she consulted .the 'assistant-secretary of tho Shop Assistants'' Union/to. make, sure that all nor details "were, accurate, and she : . has been' assured ■by thosowho know that tho feeling ,which'she has tried to convey of the girls not exactly-envying tho girl who/was'going to bo/married,': but Wishing: that they, too, had a man; willing' to look after them, and give, .them .a 'homo, was planted in many ■■hearts;;'/-.". ;■'■.'.■'-.,'.■;■'.:. ,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 501, 7 May 1909, Page 3
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189THE AUTHOR OF DIANA Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 501, 7 May 1909, Page 3
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