Download or read book A Georgian Actress Classic Reprint written by Pauline Bradford Mackie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Georgian Actress Madame, matching the silk for the yellow heart of a rose, did not reply. The sunlight fell aslant the rich border of the cloth. Amidst loving lavishness of gold thread she laid in stitches in clear scarlet, green, purple, and blue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era Classic Reprint written by John Fyvie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era This book does not profess to be a theatrical history. It is simply a series Of biographical sketches of some of the most prominent English comedy actresses Of the Georgian period. As Leigh Hunt remarked, most people are more eager to hear of actors and actresses than of the members of other professions, and in reading accounts Of them most Of us incline more to the comic than the tragic, and more to the women than the men. But a record Of the strictly professional career of an actor or actress is apt to become a mere dry chronicle of successive representations. I have therefore dealt with these ladies, so far as was possible, more from the private than the professional point of view; and I hope that, in addition to the interest Of the separate personalities, these brief biographies may be found to have a further interest as a series of character sketches Of a dozen representative women who, in the course Of the eighteenth century, attained to eminence in the only profession then open to their sex. There is also another reason for dealing with them from the personal rather than from the professional standpoint. Colley Cibber lamented that the animated graces Of the player. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Tragedy Queens of the Georgian Era Classic Reprint written by John Fyvie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tragedy Queens of the Georgian Era My Lord, my sorrow seeks not your relief; You are not fit to judge a mother's grief: You have no child for an untimely grave, Nor can you lose what I desire to save. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Some Famous Women of Wit and Beauty written by John Fyvie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Famous Women of Wit and Beauty: A Georgian Galaxy The first of the following biographical studies originally appeared in the pages of The Nineteenth Century, the second in King and Country, the third in The Quarterly Review, the fourth in The anglo-saxon Review, the sixth and seventh in Ternple Bar, and they are now reprinted by the courtesy of the editors of those periodicals. The fifth and eighth are here printed for the first time. The author hopes that they may at least serve as a, reminder that superlative beauty, brilliant wit, and lives full of strange happenings, are not the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book GEORGIAN ACTRESS written by Pauline Bradford MacKie B. 187 Hopkins and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Georgian Actress written by Pauline Bradford Mackie Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838 1839 written by Fanny Kemble and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Georgia Bequest written by Georgia Huntsman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Georgia Bequest: Manolia, or the Vale of Tallulah From that eventful period, when our first parents were expelled from the garden of Eden, to the present time, their offspring have ever manifested an eagerness after something not attainable; and, when the hopes entertained at one period of our existence are realized, new thirsts are created, and higher hopes, and more exalted aspirations excited, until, in the vale of life, if success and triumph should attend our journeyings; it would then, even, be with us, as it was with the eastern conqueror, overwhelmed with grief for new thea tres, upon which to push his conquests. This characteristic is stamped upon every condition and pursuit of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Souvenir and Programme of the Actors Fund Fair written by Actors' Fund of America and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Souvenir and Programme of the Actors' Fund Fair: Madison Square Garden, May 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 1892 Palmer, President. Edward E. Kidder, Ist vice-president. Mrs. A. C. Van brunt, 2d vice-president. Miss georgia cayvan, Secretary. Miss emma frohman, Corresponding Secretary. Miss alice fischer, Recording Secretary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation written by Frances Anne Kemble and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kemble, a British actress and authoress, was introduced to American slavery with her marriage to Pierce Butler, grandson of one of the largest slaveholders in Georgia. When Butler came into his inheritance, he and his new wife moved to their plantation, where Kemble quickly became appalled at the cruelty of the peculiar institution.In her most popular book, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation (1863), she chronicles her observations and arguments against slavery and the inhuman treatment of blacks in America. Her journal became a popular work of abolitionist writing, and she donated some of the money from its publication to the cause of ending slavery.Students of history will be intrigued by this firsthand account of life on a plantation in the decades before the American Civil War.British actress and writer FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE (1809-1893), a member of the Kemble theatrical family, was an outspoken abolitionist and later in life became an inspiration to author Henry James. Her most popular books are Records of a Girlhood (1878) and Records of Later Life (1882).
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737 1832 written by Julia Swindells and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 — a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant scholarly attention. Written by specialists from a range of disciplines, its forty essays both introduce students and scholars to the key texts and contexts of the Georgian theatre and also push the boundaries of the field, asking questions that will animate the study of drama in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for years to come. The Handbook gives equal attention to the range of dramatic forms — not just tragedy and comedy, but the likes of melodrama and pantomime — as they developed and overlapped across the period, and to the occasions, communities, and materialities of theatre production. It includes sections on historiography, the censorship and regulation of drama, theatre and the Romantic canon, women and the stage, and the performance of race and empire. In doing so, the Handbook shows the centrality of theatre to Georgian culture and politics, and paints a picture of a stage defined by generic fluidity and experimentation; by networks of performance that spread far beyond London; by professional women who played pivotal roles in every aspect of production; and by its complex mediation of contemporary attitudes of class, race, and gender.
Download or read book Zohrab written by D. R. Morier and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 1836 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Zohrab: The Hostage Aga Mohamed deprived one of his brothers of his eyesight, and murdered a second. The history of him whom I have called Hussein Kfili, has a slight reference to the fate of both these unfortunate men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Spencer Tracy written by James Curtis and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime, Spencer Tracy was known as Hollywood's 'actor's actor'. Critics wrote that what Olivier was to theatre, Tracy was to film. Over his career he was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won two. But there has been no substantial, intimate biography of the man, until now. From his earliest days in stock theatre, Tracy was a publicist's trial, guarding his private life fiercely. Most of the people associated closely with him shunned the limelight - notably his wife, his children and the great actress Katharine Hepburn, with whom he had an affair that lasted over 26 years. Although his screen roles often depicted a happy, twinkling Irishman, Tracy struggled with alchoholism to the end, a fact which the studios managed to keep out of the papers.With the help of Tracy's daughter, Susie, and access to previously unseen papers, James Curtis has now produced the definitive biography of a tortured, complex and immensely talented man.The book contains 124 integrated photos, many published for the first time.
Download or read book Censorship written by Derek Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 2950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Fanny Kemble s Journal written by Frances Anne Kemble and published by Bandanna Books. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal indictment of the institute of slavery in the Southern United States, as witnessed directly by Fanny Kemble, a British actress in 1838 and 1839. Her husband, the heir to the plantations in Georgia, however, forebade her to publish this material on pain of never seeing her daughters again. She complied, until the two daughters had reached the age of 21, and then allowed the journal to be published in 1863, when the Northern troops were already present along the coast near the Altamaha River, where the plantations were located. In a very personal way, she relates her many varied experiences, efforts to make life easier for the slaves despite her husband's stubborn resistance. As an English citizen, she had seen the total end of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833, just a few years before her journey to Georgia. She ends her account with a stirring defense of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had raised such a storm of controversy in the United States. Like Stowe, Kemble sees all sides of the situation, with her eyes and with her heart.
Download or read book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil written by John Berendt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.
