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Creator:
Engel, Laura
Title(s):
Fashioning celebrity : eighteenth-century British actresses and strategies for image making / Laura Engel.
Published/Created:
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2011.
Physical Description:
viii, 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Holdings:
Reference Library
PN2597 .E54 2011 (LC)
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Terms:
Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Celebrities -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893.
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800.
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831.
Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Wells, Mary, approximately 1759-
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  • Sarah Siddons's diva celebrity
  • Mary Robinson's gothic celebrity
  • Mary Wells's notorious celebrity
  • Epilogue. Fanny Kemble's inherited celebrity.