''Jeanie Deans'' is a play written by

Dion Boucicault Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault (né Boursiquot; 26 December 1820 – 18 September 1890) was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the ...

based on Sir Walter Scott's 1818 novel, '' The Heart of Midlothian''. It is named after the heroine of the novel,

Jeanie Deans Jeanie Deans is a fictional character in Sir Walter Scott's novel ''The Heart of Midlothian'' first published in 1818. She was one of Scott's most celebrated characters during the 19th century; she was renowned as an example of an honest, uprigh ...

. It was first produced on 9 January 1860 at

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. It was produced in

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at the

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on 26 January 1863 under the title of 'The Trial of Effie Deans', and in

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at the Theatre Royal in 1910.

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played the part of Jeanie Deans many times: "her most artistic success."''Music Hall and Theatre Review'', Thursday 18 April 1912 p6 col3: A comedian's career, Marriott Edgar's interesting story
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Thomas Hailes Lacy Thomas Hailes Lacy (1809 – 1 August 1873) was a British actor, playwright, theatrical manager, bookseller, and theatrical publisher. Life Lacy made his West End stage debut in 1828 but soon turned manager, a position he held from 1841 at The ...

seems to have incorporated Boucicault's play in a later publication entitled: ''The Heart of Mid-Lothian; or, the Sisters of St. Leonard's'' The play was also published as 'The Trial of Effie Deans' or 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian', but they are definitely the same play as 'Jeanie Deans'.Richard Fawkes, ''Dion Boucicault: a Biography'', London: Quartet Books, 1979, p.141: "''The Trial of Effie Deans'' was the play ''Jeanie Deans'' . . ."

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