Citation needed: is John Lott the fictionization of John Gallott ? edit

"John Gallott was an actor at the Haymarket and Coburg Theatres, and ultimately became prompter at the old Adelphi. Gallot was billed throughout America as D'Jecks handler and owner."[citation needed]

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"The 1858 novelette Jack of All Trades by Charles Reade is based on D'Jeck and her keeper, violin-maker John Lott."

  • "Mademoiselle DJek". Judy; or the London Serio-Comic Journal. 30: 132. March 15, 1882. Retrieved 15 April 2021. in Geneva...They shot her (DJek) with a cannon
  • Nydegger, Amanda L. Fiction Based on Fact: Subversions of Power and Propriety in Charles Reade's Matter-of-Fact Romances, Retrieved 23 April 2014 (Ph.D. thesis, contains references to additional sources on DJeck)
  • Reade, Charles (1858). Jack of All Trades.
Judy; or the London Serio-Comic Journal is not an academic journal, irony may be taken out of context as fact.
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