Fanny Kemble: A Performed LifeUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 M02 12 - 376 páginas A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007 |
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... Covent Garden Theatre eagerly awaited the acting debut of Frances Anne Kemble (known always as Fanny).1 The packed house had enjoyed the overture to The Magic Flute, and now the noisy crowd in the pit polished off its meat pies and the ...
... Covent Garden box office, which was why she had gone onstage in the first place. This narrative of reluctant fame is told by Fanny Kemble herself in a number of places in her autobiographical writings, which she began with Record of a ...
... Covent Garden, she was forced to sit at home and drink tea. Until she went on the stage, Kemble spent her days reading Byron, Shelley, and Jane Austen, writing poems and drafting plays, and dreaming of success as a pub— lished author ...
... Covent Garden , many were mesmerized by his stern Roman looks and elaborate , declamatory style , but others were alienated by his artificiality . One critic said he was " guided by everything but nature " and that he used upliftings of ...
... Covent Garden neighborhood, was happy to grow vegetables, put tasty meals on the table (she was a superb cook), and breathe some decent air. A few years after Fanny's birth, the Kembles settled in a stuccoed villa in Westbourne Green ...
Contenido
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2 The Gaze of Every Eye | 29 |
3 Reform and Romance | 56 |
4 Seeing the World | 80 |
5 On the Brink | 103 |
6 The Outer Bound of Civilized Creation | 129 |
7 A Dreary Lesson of Human Suffering | 153 |
8 A Woful Ruin | 172 |
10 Fannys Master | 222 |
11 Mothers and Daughters | 246 |
12 The Unfurling Sea | 265 |
Notes | 291 |
Bibliography | 325 |
Index | 337 |
Acknowledgments | 349 |
9 The Havoc of a Single Life | 197 |
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Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life Deirdre David,Professor Emerita of English Deirdre David Vista previa limitada - 2007 |