I have all of the things to post today! I've had a breakthrough in my research, and I have finished both of my essays. What I will be posting over the next few hours are some insights that I think are interesting, important, and should be shared.
First off, there is very little information on the authors of Secrets, but I have found some good information.

Rudolf Besier lived a straight-forward life as a journalist, a translator, and a playwright. He was primary known for his dramatic works, “although he was also engaged in journalism and translated works from the French" (Rollyson). While there is very little information about Besier's personal life, many of the details were recorded by Carl Rollyson in his Critical Survey of Drama. Besier was of Dutch descent, born in Java, in July 1978, to Margaret (née Collinson) and Rudolf Besier, Sr. He was well-educated and studied at St. Elizabeth College, Guernsey, England, and then finished his studies in Heidelberg, Germany. He worked in journalism while working for the firm of C. Arthur Pearson for several years after graduating. Besier left journalism in 1908, after he decided to devote his efforts to the theatre. He married Charlotte Woodward, the daughter of the Reverend J. P. S. Woodward, of Plumpton, Sussex (Rollyson). He wrote a large number of plays; the most famous of these plays and the one that put Besier on the map as a playwright is The Barretts of Wimpole Street.

May Edginton has even less information available than Rudolf Besier does. 

May Edginton, has a life that is hard to research due to the fact that she used many pen names, and rarely wrote anything about herself. In "1883 or 1884 Helen Marion Edginton (who later wrote under several forms of her name, but usually as 'May Edginton') was born" (Blain, Clements, and Grundy). There is little about her life that has been recorded other than her novels, plays, and some of her pseudonyms. One of the few dates historians know for sure is that of her death: June 17^th, 1957 at “Rondebosch, South Africa, two years after the appearance of her final novel" ("Miss May Edginton"). It is believed that she was married, but no source can say exactly to whom. Much like the rest of her life, Edginton’s marriage was either not recorded or was a private matter.Edginton’s works were quite popular in her day, when she “published more than fifty romances between 1909 and 1955, besides serials, short stories, and plays. Several of her plays did well on stage. One of her novels was filmed, and another gave rise to a musical and a movie which won fame for themselves though not for her" (Brown, Clements, and Grundy). 

also, here is my works consulted for this whole ordeal. any and all of my sources for this project are on this list. so this will cover every cite in every post:

Barrow, Mandy. "Old English Money." British Life and Culture (2010): n.pag. Web. 27 Mar 2013. <http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/moneyold.htm>.

Besier, Rudolf, and May Edginton. Secrets. French's Acting ed. London: Samuel French, LTD, 1930. Print.

Blain, Virginia ed., Patricia Clements ed., and Isobel Grundy ed. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Alternate Title: Feminist Companion; FC. New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Bordman, Gerald. American Theatre:A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1914-1930. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1995. Print.

Briggs, Asa. Victorian People. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1972. Print.

British Library Catalogue. <http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list> 28 June 1999.

The Broadway League, . "Secrets." (2001): Internet Broadway Database. Web. 2 Feb 2013. <http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=9173>.

Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, eds. May Edginton entry: Overview screen within Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Online, 2006. <http://orlando.cambridge.org/>. 23 April 2013.

Broun, Heywood. "Classification of Drama Becomes More Difficult." Indianapolis Sunday Star [Indianapolis] 7 Jan 1923, n. pag. Print.

Callahan, Dan. "Secrets." Slant. (2006): n. page. Web. 23 Apr. 2013. <http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/secrets>.

Contento, William G. comp. The FictionMags Index. Homeville Bibliographic Resources. (31 October 2004). 12 December 2004. <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/0start.htm> 

Corbin, John. "Off the Key of Comedy." New York Times[New York] 30 Sept 1923, R1. Print.

de Groat, Greta. "Secrets (1924)." The Norma Talmadge Website. Stanford.edu, 10 Apr 2010. Web. 24 Apr. 2013. 

de Souza, Eunice. "How do I love thee?." Times of India. (2013): n. page. Web. 23 Apr. 2013. <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/How-do-I-love-thee/articleshow/18496400.cms>.

Duncan, Mary. "Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me."Hymnary.org n.pag. Web. 20 Apr 2013. <http://www.hymnary.org/text/jesus_tender_shepherd_hear_me>.

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Findon, B.W. "Secrets." Play Pictorial. Sept 1922: n. page. Print.

FreeBMD. The Trustees of FreeBMD. 10 October 2010. <http://www.freebmd.org.uk/>

Gale, Maggie B. "West End Women - 1917 to 1929." West End Theatre Histor (2011): n.pag. West End Theatre. Web. 28 Dec 2013. <http://www.westendtheatre.com/9063/west-end-theatre-history-data/women-playwrights-in-the-west-end-1917-1929-2/>.

Gorbin, John. "The Play." New York Times [New York] 26 Dec 1922, 17. Print.

Kemp, Sandra, Charlotte Mitchell, and David Trotter. Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion. Alternate Title: The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997: 113

"London Notes." New York Times [New York] 26 Sep 120, Section 6. Print.

McGrath, William J. Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The politics of Hysteria. Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1986. Print.

McKinnel, Norman. "Secrets." Magazine Programme. 23 Jul 1923: n. page. Print.

"Miss May Edginton." Times. (20 June 1957): 16.

Mitchell, Sally. Victorian Britain: an encyclopedia. New York: 1988. Print.

Nash, Patrick. "Movie Review: Secrets." Three Movie Buffs. (2009): n. page. Web. 23 Apr. 2013. <http://www.threemoviebuffs.com/review/secrets?ref_=ttexrv_exrv_2>.

"Other Works of May Edginton." (1990): n.pag. IMDB. Web. 23 Apr 2013. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249317/otherworks>.

Rollyson, Carl. Critical Survey of Drama. Second Revised Edition. Salem: Salem Press Inc., 2003. Web. 23 Apr. 2013. <http://www.enotes.com/rudolf-besier-salem/>.

Roth, Michael S. Psycho-Analysis as History. Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1987. Print.

"Rudolf Besier Dead; British Dramatist, 63." New York Times [New York] 15 Jun 1942, Pg. 19. Print.

"The Screen." New York Times [New York] 25 Mar 1924, n. pag. Print.

Snodgrass, Chris. "A CHRONICLE OF SOME VICTORIAN EVENTS." . N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr 2013. <http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/snod/vicagetimeline.html>.

"Victorian England: An Introduction." . N.p.. Web. 19 Apr 2013. <http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm>.

Wilson, A.N. The Victorians. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003. Print.

Zarrilli, Phillip, Bruce McConachie, Gary Jay Williams, and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei. Theatre Histories: An Introduction. 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge, 2010. Print.