and country pursuits, especially of driving, of which she 'can never have too much,' Fanny Brough finds her pretty home conveniently near London, while possessing many rural aspects. It is a large, old-fashioned house, within high walls, with some old trees in the still more old-fashioned garden. There is a great double hall opening out into several rooms. Her own special ' den ' is simply but artistically furnished, and contains many little treasures. There is a picture standing on an easel, by which she sets great store. It was sent to her by the Spanish author of the play The Woman and the Law, together with a letter of hearty congratulations and thanks on her brilliant creation of Petrella in that piece. But, with all her excessive love of mirth, Fanny Brough can look as severe as a judge when occasion demands. In early days some juvenile actor would now and then mischievously declare, 'I'm going to make you laugh to-night,' but it was no use. The merriment springs from within, and her face would be set as immovably as the Sphinx; but she remarks, "My sense of humour has served me in glorious stead throughout my whole life, and I should die if I could not laugh." Marriage and later years In the summer of 1878, in London, Brough married Richard Smith Bull, an actor and stage manager who went by the nom de théâtre, Richard Smith Boleyn. In 1891, Brough became the first president of the Theatrical Ladies' Guild, an organization created to help destitute actresses who were about to become mothers. Brough played the Irish servant, Mary O’Brien, in the hit play The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy, from the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which opened on 23 February 1888 at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Throughout much of the 1880s and into the 1890s, Brough toured in road productions headed by Kyrle Bellew and Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter. She played Lady Markby in one of Oscar Wilde's last plays, An Ideal Husband, which opened on 3 January 1895 at the Haymarket Theatre in London. In 1891 the actress Kittie Carson founded The Theatrical Ladies Guild, whose purpose was to loan clothes and give other aid to actresses who became pregnant and lost their jobs. Brough was the guild's first president. The group raised and distributed money and arranged for medical services and the loan and creation