Fanny Kemble : A Performed Life /

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"Fanny Kemble played a highly significant cultural role on both sides of the Atlantic. As David so convincingly shows, the life of this actress-turned-writer-turned-polemicist not only offers a fascinating subject in its own right but also intersects with a host of nineteenth-century figures wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David, Deirdre, 1934-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kemble, Fanny, > 1809-1893.
Actors.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
Acteurs > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Actors > Great Britain > Biography.
Great Britain.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Prologue. Before the Curtain
  • 1. The Green-Room
  • 2. The Gaze of Every Eye
  • 3. Reform and Romance
  • 4. Seeing the World
  • 5. On the Brink
  • 6. The Outer Bound of Civilized Creation
  • 7. A Dreary Lesson of Human Suffering
  • 8. "A Woful Ruin3
  • 9. The Havoc of a Single Life
  • 10. Fanny's Master
  • 11. Mothers and Daughters
  • 12. The Unfurling Sea
  • Kemble Genealogy
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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