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Bickerstaff scholar Peter Tasch notes that the play was "damned by nearly all the critics wherever it was performed, but stayed in the repertory at first because of the acting of Mrs. Jordan, and later, of other actresses who thought it fun to play Little Pickle. As late as 1873 in
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