Gertrude Kingston

"... for sheer beauty, the , to my mind, between and , are infinitely more exquisite, with alternating well-watered s and and in the distance, than any part of ."

"There are two sides to every question. There are two sides to every —what is termed the back and the front of the house, or more generally known as before and behind the footlights —and if of late years both sides of the curtain have been made familiar to the public gaze, it is not because it is the fashion to court observation, but on account of a passionate national curiosity to know the truth."

"... People still talk of Gertrude Kingstons as a piece of acting to treasure in the memory; and readers of who considered it contained a too great monotony of sorrow to be effective on the stage, found themselves, to their astonishment, almost unendurably moved."