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Female actresses had been allowed onstage by royal warrant since 1660. Fraser estimates that while one quarter were professionals, most women used the stage to display their wares and attract protectors. Elizabeth Barry, considered the leading actress of the Restoration, was involved with the Earl of Rochester and bore him a child in poverty...
...14th book, The Weaker Vessel, the irony in her own life is apparent. She comes from a long literary tradition. Her mother, Elizabeth, has written biographies of Queen Victoria, Wellington, Byron and Elizabeth II. Her father, Frank Pakenham, was an Oxford don and inherited his title, the Earl of Longford. Fraser's siblings are novelists and poets...
...week, growers and vintners were in no mood to raise their goblets to Bacchus. Because of a worldwide glut of wine, this year's harvest of nearly 2 million tons of grapes will be far more than needed. "We are in a hell of a bind here," says Earl Rocca, a grower near Fresno. "We're in a grape depression." While consumers are savoring the lowest wine prices in years, some growers are being pushed close to bankruptcy...
...Earl Campbell, one of the top runners in pro football history, and five-time Pro Bowl linebacker Brad Van Pelt were among a bevy of players who were swapped yesterday just before the National Football League's trading deadline passed...
...believe this trade is in the best interest of both the Oilers and Earl," said Oilers General Manager Ladd Herzeg, "because it gives us the opportunity to select an outstanding young player next year and it gives Earl the chance at this stage of his career to hopefully be bound for the playoffs...