The family theatrical links:
Books:
The Cowells in America, 1860-1861 from the
diary of Mrs Sam Cowell, ed. M. Willson Disher
Thirty Years Passed Among
The Players by Joe Cowell
Memoir of Henry Compton by Charles and
Edward Compton
From Theatre to Convent by Isobel
Bateman
Rosemary by Fay Compton
Behind An Old Stage Door,
by Sydney Fairbrother
My Life and Times, (particularly Octaves One
and Two) by Compton Mackenzie
The Mackenzies called Compton, by Lou
Warwick
Compton Mackenzie, by Andro Linklater
A Quite
Remarkable Father, by L.R.Howard
In Search of my Father, by
Ronald Howard
Trivial Fond Records, by Leslie Howard
Flight
777 by Ian Colvin
New Readings in Theatre History, chapter 7, by Jacky Bratton.