Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Engel, Laura
Title:
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.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Sarah Siddons's diva celebrity -- Mary Robinson's gothic celebrity -- Mary Wells's notorious celebrity -- Epilogue. Fanny Kemble's inherited celebrity.
Subject Terms:
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.