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CORNER JULIA: (1798-1875) English author of plays for children whose series of plays Little Plays for Little People were published by Dean & Son in 1854. The plays consisted of Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Puss in Boots and Dick Whittington, all fairy stories which have now become classic pantomimes. A good A.L.S., Julia Corner, three pages, 8vo, Bayswater, 3rd November n.y., to a lady. Corner thanks her correspondent for her good opinion of her little plays and continues to explain that she has 'no intention of bringing out any more of them having discontinued writing for children as my time is wholly engrossed by works of another description.' The author further informs her correspondent that 'there are three other plays of mine published by Mr. Dean, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and Puss in Boots. These have all been frequently acted…' In concluding Corner adds 'There are some others with my name to them but they were not written by me. I never wrote any but the three I mention and Whittington'. A letter of good content making reference to all of Corner's important works. Some slight traces of former mounting to the verso of the final page, causing slight wrinkling at the head of the page, just affecting two lines of text but not the signature, about VG
