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Fanny Kemble : A Performed Life

  • Fanny Kemble : A Performed Life

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    Deirdre David

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    Book, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007

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    Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as an actress and member of the famous Kemble theatrical dynasty, as a fierce opponent of slavery despite her marriage to a wealthy slave owner, as a brilliantly successful solo performer of Shakespeare, and as the author of journals about her career and life on her husband’s Georgia plantations. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PN2598.K4 D38 2007  AVAILABLE

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Charlotte : Being A True Account Of An Actress’s Flamboyant Adventures In Eighteenth-century London’s Wild And Wicked Theatrical World

  • Charlotte : Being A True Account Of An Actress's Flamboyant Adventures In Eighteenth-century London's Wild And Wicked Theatrical World

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    Kathryn Shevelow

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    Book, 1st ed, H. Holt, 2005

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    The life of actress Charlotte Charke transports us through the splendors and scandals of eighteenth-century London and its wicked theatrical world Her father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth century’s great actor/playwrights-the toast of the British aristocracy, a favorite of the king. Kathryn Shevelow, an expert on the sophisticated world of eighteenth-century London (the setting for classics such as Tom Jones and Moll Flanders), re-creates Charlotte’s downfall from the heights of London’s theatrical world to its lascivious lows (the domain of fire-eaters, puppeteers, wastrels, gender-bending cross-dressers, wenches, and scandalous sorts of every variety) and her comeback as the author of one of the first autobiographies ever written by a woman. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PN2598.C28 S48 2005  AVAILABLE

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Perdita : The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life Of Mary Robinson

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Alec Guinness : A Life

  • Alec Guinness : A Life

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    Garry O’Connor

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    Book, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2002

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    The late Sir Alec Guinness, one of the great British actors of the 20th Century along with his fellow knights Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, was known for his ability to slip, chameleon-like, into his roles. Backed by impeccable research, including interviews with Guinness himself, and containing startling new information about his childhood, his secret relationships and the fears that haunted him, the book is a portrait of the true, complicated man behind the idelible performances. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PN2598.G8 O34 2002  AVAILABLE

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History Of The London Stage And Its Famous Players, 1576- 1903

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John Gielgud : The Authorized Biography

  • John Gielgud : The Authorized Biography

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    Sheridan Morley

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    Book, Simon & Schuster, 2002

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    Sir John Gielgud’s career as an actor was perhaps the most distinguished of any of his generation, and, in a lifetime that spanned almost a century, he appeared in hundreds of theatrical productions and films, receiving virtually every honor given, including an Academy Award. Now, in this wonderfully insightful biography, fully authorized and written with first-ever access to Gielgud’s personal letters and diaries, bestselling biographer Sheridan Morley not only traces the actor’s fascinating career, but provides a fresh and remarkably frank look into John Gielgud the man, showing how his success as an actor in many ways came at the expense of his personal happiness. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PN2598.G45 M67 2002  AVAILABLE

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Paul Scofield : An Actor For All Seasons

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Shakespeare, The Player : A Life In The Theatre

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Gielgud : A Theatrical Life

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Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars

  • Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars

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    Catherine Clinton

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    Book, Simon & Schuster, 2000

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    A British stage star turned Georgia plantation mistress, Fanny Kemble is perhaps best known as America’s most unlikely abolitionist, whose passionate writings against human bondage made her a heroine of the Union cause. Young ladies adopted “Fanny Kemble curls” and donned “Fanny Kemble caps.” Kemble’s name became permanently linked to the issue of slavery when, in 1863, she published her most famous volume, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. In Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars, we learn how this fascinating figure lived up to her pledge: “[I]t was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PN2598.K4 C58 2000  AVAILABLE

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Loitering With Intent

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Leaving A Doll’s House : A Memoir

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Noël Coward : A Biography

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Mrs. Jordan’s Profession : The Actress And The Prince

  • Mrs. Jordan's Profession : The Actress And The Prince

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    Claire Tomalin

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    Book, 1st American ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995

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    On the London stage ill the late eighteenth century, Dora Jordan was a star, probably the greatest comic actress the British theatre has ever known. For Dora Jordan’s tragedy, growing as it did out of the collision and interweaving of two worlds — the rough and colorful world of the Georgian theatre where she was at home, and the glittering world of the court and the aristocracy, increasingly shadowed by the pall of convention that would define Victoria’s reign — is a vivid reflection of historical change. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PN2598.J6 T66 1995  AVAILABLE

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Vanessa Redgrave : An Autobiography

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