- 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.