Author: Charlotte CharkePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 277
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, (youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq;) ... Written by Herself. The Second Edition
Author: Charlotte CharkeA Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait
Author: Charlotte CHARKEA Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq
Author: Charlotte CharkeCatalogue of the Private Library of the Late Henry Bright, Esq., of Northampton, Mass.
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385420776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Living by the Pen
Author: Cheryl TurnerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134832338
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Living by the Pen traces the pattern of the development of women's fiction from 1696 to 1796 and offers an interpretation of its distinctive features. It focuses upon the writers rather than their works, and identifies professional novelists. Through examination of the extra-literary context, and particularly the publishing market, the book asks why and how women earned a living by the pen. Cheryl Turner has researched and lectured widely in the field of eighteenth-century women's writing.
Actresses and Whores
Author: Kirsten PullenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521541022
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Charlotte
Author: Kathryn ShevelowPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429936738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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. When his high-spirited, often rebellious daughter, Charlotte, revealed a fondness for things theatrical, it was thought that the young actress would follow in his footsteps at the legendary Drury Lane, creating a brilliant career on the London stage. But this was not to be. And it was not that Charlotte lacked talent-she was gifted, particularly at comedy. Troublesome, however, was her habit of dressing in men's clothes-a preference first revealed onstage but adopted elsewhere after her disastrous marriage to an actor, who became the last man she ever loved. 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. Beyond the appealingly unorthodox Charlotte, Shevelow masterfully recalls for us a historical era of extraordinary stylishness, artifice, character, interest, and intrigue.
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq.) Containing
Author: Charlotte CharkePublisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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