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Fashioning celebrity : eighteenth-century British actresses and strategies for image making /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Engel, Laura
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Actresses > Great Britain > Biography.
Celebrities > Great Britain > Biography.
Theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Siddons, Sarah, > 1755-1831.
Robinson, Mary, > 1758-1800.
Wells, Mary, > approximately 1759-
Kemble, Fanny, > 1809-1893.
Table of Contents:
  • Sarah Siddons's diva celebrity
  • Mary Robinson's gothic celebrity
  • Mary Wells's notorious celebrity
  • Epilogue. Fanny Kemble's inherited celebrity.