The Rehearsal Club was a London club providing support to actresses, ballet dancers and music hall chorus girls. The club provided a space to rest, read, eat and socialize between morning and evening performances.Tracy C. Davis, Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture, Routledge, 2002, p.64 It was founded in 1892 by the Rev. John Fenwick Kitto, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, with the support of Prince Christian, who became the club's president.John Kelly & Ronald Schuchard, eds., The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats: 1905-1907, p.366 It seems to have been based at different times at 29 Leicester Square and at Cranbourne Street.
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