Each week on Saturday, Sunday and sometimes on Fridays, I will be listing GREAT AUTOGRAPHS, HISTORICAL EPHEMERA, SIGNED BOOKS, ART AND ANTIQUES FROM MY LONG LIFE OF COLLECTING.

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This one is an ORIGINAL, NOT A COPY, NOR REPRODUCTION, AUTHENTIC HAND WRITTEN AND SIGNED QUOTE from the well remembered Victorian Bohemian playwright and theater manager AIMEE BERINGER. "In the street of By-and-By Stands the hostelry of Never,"

Aimée Daniell Beringer (1856 – February 17, 1936) billed professionally as Mrs. Oscar Beringer, was an American-born playwright, theatrical manager, novelist, and commentator, based in London.

Aimée Daniell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Edward Lynch Daniell. Her parents were English, and she moved to Mexico as a child, and to England to live at age 15.


In 1896, To-day magazine described Aimée Daniell Beringer as "one of the most popular personalities in literary and theatrical Bohemia." Beringer was manager of the Opera Comique Theatre in London. Plays by Beringer included Tares: A Social Problem (1888), Katherine Kavenagh, The Prince and the Pauper (1890, adapted from the Mark Twain book), That Girl (1890, adapted from a story by Clementina Black), Holly Tree Inn (1891, 1902; an adaptation of a Charles Dickens story), Bess (1891, 1893), Salve (1895), A Bit of Old Chelsea (1897, 1898, 1902), My Lady's Orchard (1897), The Plot of His Story (1899-1901), Jim Belmont (1901), and The Agitator (1907-1908). She also wrote novels, including Beloved of the Gods (After the Danish) (1883), A Left-Handed Marriage (1886) and The New Virtue (1896).

She was one of the commenters in The Idler's "The Idlers' Club," along with Eliza Lynn Linton, Evelyn Sharp, Arabella Kenealy, Fred Whishaw, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Jerome K. Jerome, Robert Blatchford, George Bernard Shaw, and other literary figures. The monthly panel discussed such topics such as early marriage ("Youth is a very charming and enviable possession, but none will deny that it is imperious, exacting, and egotistic", she opined) and "At What Age is Man Most Attractive to Woman?" (Beringer began her response to this subject with "This is a very distracting question.")


Closed Measures approximately 6 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. 


The 2007 7th edition of THE SANDERS AUTOGRAPH PRICE GUIDE values a handwritten letter from E.A. SOTHERN at $120.00.


It's worth a google search to learn more about this important and talented man's life and career!


Each item will be posted in a plastic cover between two strong, cross grained, hard to bend, pieces of cardboard.


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All autographs and historical paper that I sell are MONEY BACK GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC. I have authenticated autographs for insurance companies and collectors for more than three decades. I DO NOT SELL COPIES. I have collected historical autographs, books and ephemera since I was a kid in the late 1950's. I have had this OLD AUTOGRAPH in my own collection for a long, long time!

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