| 1887 | |
| “Varney” | Proposals |
| “Spirit of Home” (Dot) | The Cricket on the Hearth |
| 1888 | |
| “Alice” | A Red Rag |
| “Alice Marshall” | The Butler |
| “Dora” | The Don |
| —— | The Spittalfields Weaver |
| —— | Toole in the Pig Skin |
| —— | Ici on Parle Française |
| —— | Birthplace of Podgers |
| —— | Artful Cards |
| —— | Paul Pry |
| 1889 | |
| “Kitty” | A Broken Sixpence |
| “Felicia Umfraville” | The Middleman |
| “Alice Jolliffe” | The Home Feud |
| “Nancy” | The Middleman |
| “Diana” | Pedigree |
| 1890 | |
| “Countess of Drumdurris” | The Cabinet Minister |
| 1891 | |
| “Gwendoline Fanlight” | Culprits |
| “Mrs. Richard Webb” | The Late Lamented |
| “Nita” | The Mountebanks |
| 1892 | |
| “Matilde” | A Scrap of Paper |
| “Violet Melrose” | Our Boys |
| 1893 | |
| “Miss Violet” | A Pantomime Rehearsal |
| “Amanda P. Warren” | Allendale |
| “Mrs. Delafield” | Man and Woman |
| “Lettice” | Time will Tell |
| “Winifred Chester” | The Younger Son |
| “Pepita” | Little Christopher Columbus |
| 1894 | |
| “Nellie Dudley” | The Gay Widow |
| “Lead” | The Shop Girl |
| *†“Fairy Buttonshaw” | Bogey |
| 1895 | |
| “Angela Brightwell” | The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown |
| “Nelly Jedbury” | Jedbury, Jun. |
| “Dora” | The Wanderer from Venus |
| 1896 | |
| “Molly Dyson” | Major Raymond |
| *†“Margaret” | In and Out of a Punt |
| †“Miss Savile” | A Blind Marriage |
| “Madam de Cocheforet” | Under the Red Robe |
| 1897 | |
| “Mistress Golding” | The Alchemist |
| “Elladeen Dunrayne” | An Irish Gentleman |
| *††“Maysie” | One Summer’s Day |
| 1898 | |
| “April” | The Sea Flower |
| “Angela Goodwin” | Tommy Dodd |
| †“Gabrielle de Chalius” | The Three Musketeers |
| 1899 | |
| “Sybil Crake” | The Dancing Girl |
| “Ellice Ford” | Carnac Sahib |
| “Lucie Manette” | The Only Way |
| “Christina” | Ibb and Christina |
| “Louise” | Marsac of Gascony |
| 1901 | |
| “Kate Duewent” | A Fools’ Paradise |
| *“Mabel Vaughan” | The Wilderness |
| —— | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| 1902 | |
| “Lady Hetty Wrey” | Pilkerton’s Peerage |
| *“Lady Ernstone” | My Lady Virtue |
| 1903 | |
| “Kathie” | Old Heidelberg |
| *“Miss Wilhelmina Marr” | Billy’s Little Love Affair |
| “Lady Henrietta Addison” | The Duke of Killiecrankie |
| 1904 | |
| “Lady Mary Carlyle” | Monsieur Beaucaire |
| 1905 | |
| †“Klara Volkhardt” | Lights Out |
| 1906 | |
| “Judy” | Punch |
| “Miss Blarney” | Josephine |
| 1907 | |
| “Muriel Glayde” | John Glayde’s Honour |
| “Sweet Kitty Bellaires” | Sweet Kitty Bellaires |
| 1908 | |
| “Mrs. Crowley” | The Explorer |
| “Dorothy Gore” | The Marriages of Mayfair |
| “Mrs. Errol” (Dearest) | Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| “Lady Joan Meredith” | The House of Bondage |
| 1909 | |
| “Kathie” (revival) | Old Heidelberg |
| “Hon. Mrs. Bayle” | The Best People |
| “Hon. Mrs. Rivers” | The House Opposite |
| 1910 | |
| “Gay Birch” | Company for George |
| 1911 | |
| “Christine” | A Woman’s Wit |
| 1912 | |
| “Kate Bellingham” | Looking for Trouble |
| *†“Eliza” | Eliza Comes to Stay |
| *†“Betty” | The Dangerous Age |
| 1913 | |
| *†“Eliza” | Eliza Comes to Stay |
| *†“Betty” | The Dangerous Age |
| 1914 | |
| *†“Eliza” | Eliza Comes to Stay |
| *†“Betty” | The Dangerous Age |
| 1915 | |
| *†“Phyllis” | When We Were Twenty-One |
| 1918 | |
| “Mrs. Culver” | The Title |
| “Mrs. Etheridge” | Cæsar’s Wife |
| 1920 | |
| “Mumsie” | Mumsie |
| 1921 | |
| “Lady Marlow” | A Matter of Fact |
| *†“Edie La Bas” | The Law Divine |
| 1922 | |
| “Miss Van Gorder” | The Bat |
| 1923 | |
| “Mary Westlake” | Mary, Mary Quite Contrary |
| All those marked * were plays written by my husband. | |
| All those marked † we played together. | |
APPENDIX II
SOME PARTS PLAYED BY H. V. ESMOND
| “Lord John” | The Scorpion |
| “Harold Lee” | Rachel |
| —— | Frou Frou |
| “Gibson” | Ticket of Leave |
| “Horace Holmcroft” | New Magdalen |
| “Eglantine Roseleaf” | Turn Him Out |
| “Feversham” | Take Back the Heart |
| “Theodore Lamb” | Glimpse of Paradise |
| “Capt. Damerel” | The Lord Harry |
| “Jack” | Ruth’s Romance |
| “The Marquis de Presles” | The Two Orphans |
| “Megor” | Nana |
| “George Talboys” | Lady Audrey’s Secret |
| “Philip” | Eve’s Temptation |
| “Bill Sykes” | Oliver Twist |
| “Uriah Heep” | Little Emily |
| “Ishmael, the Wolf” | Flower of the Forest |
| “Tulkinghorn” | Poor Joe |
| “Charles Torrens” | Serious Family |
| “Mr. Lynx” | Happy Pair |
| “Mr. Debbles” | Good for Nothing |
| “Rafael de Mayal” | The Marquesa |
| “Capt. Kirby” | Dick Venables |
| “Fillipo” | Fennel |
| “Paddington Grun” | If I Had a Thousand a Year |
| “Harold Wingard” | Daughters |
| “Fred Fanshaw” | Weak Woman |
| “Harry Stanley” | Paul Pry |
| “John” | In Chancery |
| *“Pierre” | Rest |
| “Frank Bilton” | Churchwarden |
| “Weston Carr” | Flight |
| “Plantagent Watts” | Great Unpaid |
| “Phil Summers” | Dregs |
| “Eric” | Too Happy by Half |
| “Reggie” | The Rise of Dick Halward |
| * †“Hugh” | In and Out of a Punt |
| “Dolly” | A Blind Marriage |
| “Le Barrier” | The Storm |
| “Cayley Drummle” | The Second Mrs. Tanqueray |
| “Touchstone” | As You Like It |
| “Major-General Sir R. Chichele” | The Princess and the Butterfly |
| “Verges” | Much Ado About Nothing |
| “Capt. Theobald Kerger” | The Conquerors |
| “Vivian Seauvefere” | The Ambassador |
| “Fritz von Tarbenhelm” | Rupert of Hentzau |
| “D’Artagnan” | The Three Musketeers |
| “Major Blencoe” | The Tree of Knowledge |
| —— | The Debt of Honour |
| “Charles II.” | His Majesty’s Servant |
| “Mercutio” | Romeo and Juliet |
| “Augustus III.” | Hawthorne, U.S.A. |
| “Corporal Helbig” | Lights Out |
| “Louis IV.” | Bond of Ninon |
| “Widgery Blake” | Palace of Puck |
| “Mr. Whitly” | The Education of Elizabeth |
| “Sir Benjamin Backbite” | The School for Scandal |
| “Little Billee” | Trilby |
| “Viscount Bolingbroke” | Mr. Jarvis |
| *“Philip Kean” | Grierson’s Way |
| “Sir Francis Leverson” | East Lynne |
| “Alfred Meynard” | The Corsican Brothers |
| “Chaucer” | Vice Versa |
| “Robert de Belfort” | The Grip of Iron |
| “Adrian Fiore” | The Panel Picture |
| “Capt. Julian Chandler” | The Middleman |
| “Algernon Grey” | Sweet Nancy |
| “Graham Maxwell” | The Pharisee |
| “Edward Pendlecoop” | Culprits |
| “Lord Leadenhall” | The Rocket |
| “Howard Bombas” | The Times |
| “Cis Farrington” | The Magistrate |
| “Eddie Remon” | The Masqueraders |
| “George Round” | Guy Domville |
| “Willie Hasselwood” | The Triumph of the Philistines |
| [[1]]“Uncle Archie Buttonshaw” | Bogey |
| “Earl of Addisworth” | Pilkerton’s Peerage |
| “Cyril Ryves” | Chance, The Idol |
| “Hon. Sandy Verrall” | Eliza Comes to Stay |
| “Jack Le Bas” | The Law Divine |
| “Adam Haggarth” | In Days of Old |
| —— | Barton Mystery |
| “Sir Egbert Ingelfield” | The Dangerous Age |
| “Jacob Ussher” | Birds of a Feather |
[1]. Parts in his own plays.
APPENDIX III
PLAYS WRITTEN BY H. V. ESMOND
- *When We Were Twenty-One
- *Under the Greenwood Tree
- *Billy’s Little Love Affair
- *One Summer’s Day
- *Grierson’s Way
- *My Lady Virtue
- *The Divided Way
- *The Wilderness
- *Bogey
- *The Sentimentalist
- *Eliza Comes to Stay
- *The Dangerous Age
- *The O’Grindles
- *A Kiss or Two
- Clorinda’s Career
- *My Lady’s Lord
- *A Young Man’s Fancy
- The Tug of War
- *The Forelock of Time
- *Love and the Man
- *The Law Divine
- *Birds of a Feather
- *Leoni
- *Cupboard Love
SHORT PLAYS
- *In and Out of a Punt
- *Her Vote
- *Rest
- A Woman in Chains
- *Island of Dreams
Those marked * have been produced either in England or America.