Dolly Reforming Herself

About

Henry Arthur Jones was one of the dominant figures of the late Victorian and Edwardian commercial stage, writing alongside Pinero as the era's most reliable purveyor of well-made plays with social conscience. Dolly Reforming Herself (1908) is a characteristic product: a marital comedy in which Dolly's extravagance nearly destroys her household, resolved with the wit and moral briskness Jones's audiences expected. Less challenging than his serious work like The Liars, it remains a pleasant and competently engineered specimen of Edwardian commercial theater.