Download or read book Madame Tussaud s book of Victorian masks written by Lionel Lambourne and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madame Tussaud s Book of Victorian Masks written by Lionel Lambourne and published by Plume. This book was released on 1987-10-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madame Tussaud s Book of Victorian Masks written by Lionel Lambourne and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1987 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REDISCOVER THE PLEASURES OF VICTORIAN PARTY AMUSEMENT BY PRESSING OUT THESE 24 FACSIMILE REPRODUCTIONS OF FULL SIZED MASKS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF MADAME TUSSAUDS AND THE STOCKHOLM LEKSAKSMUSEUM. LIONEL LAMBOURNE, ASSISTANT KEEP OF PAINTINGS AT THE V & A MUSEUM CONTRIBUTES AN INFORMATIVE INTRODUCTION, MAKING THIS A BOOK OF COLOURFUL NOSTALGIA AND INSTANT AMUSEMEN
Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Geri Walton and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over 200 hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew during and after the French Revolution. These were people like Voltaire, Robespierre, and Napoleon -- people who changed the world. Even more, the wax figures were depicted in scenes drawn from the horrors she experienced during the reign of terror in Paris during her early adult years. This book shows how the traumatic and cataclysmic experiences of Madame Tussaud's early life became part of her legacy. She created a succession of scenes in wax, telling events as she personally experienced them. Her wax sculptures were visceral. She made them herself, at times from the living person's head and at other times from the recently guillotined head of a former house guest. As a result, people were drawn to her wax displays in those days because they were the most intense way of experiencing those events themselves. Madame Tussaud's story is told through a series of unique and informative stories drawn from an in-depth study of both Madame Tussaud's life and the dramatic times in which she lived. This narrative style makes learning about history rewarding for both avid history readers and people with a casual interest in this unique story.
Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Kate Berridge and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Berridge’s Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax “celebrates a great pioneer of mass-market illusion, whose illusions eventually included herself.”* Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in history, this intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman has also had an indelible impact on contemporary culture, planting the seed of our obsession with celebrity. Kate Berridge tells this fascinating woman’s complete story for the first time, drawing upon a wealth of sources, including Tussaud’s memoirs and historical archives. It is a grand-scale success story, revealing how with sheer graft and grit a woman born in 1761 to an eighteen-year-old cook overcame extraordinary reversals of fortune to build the first and most enduring worldwide brand identified simply by reference to its founder’s name: Madame Tussaud’s. “A good story, like Berridge’s biography, is a blessing.” —Miami Herald “A rousing good read . . . [Berridge] presents us with a thorough understanding of the beginnings of popular culture.” —Vancouver Sun “Fascinating. . . . A vividly recreated history of an extreme time and the unusually determined woman who capitalized so effectively on it.” —Globe and Mail “Spectacular and spellbinding. . . . Thoughtful, original, never condescending, erudite, and packed with vivid and sometimes horrifying detail, it is a model of how cultural history should be written.” —*Sunday Times (London)
Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Michelle Moran and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, 1788. Marie is a young woman in love with her oldest friend and neighbour, Henri. But she is also a determined businesswoman, eager to see her family's waxwork museum keep them safe and solvent. Her gift for modelling faces in wax brings her to Versailles, where she must teach the king's sister her skill. But the coming revolution will place Marie, her family and all of Paris in grave danger. As the monarchy is overthrown and the guillotine becomes a fixture in French life, Marie is expected to show her patriotism by making death masks from the severed heads of every key figure killed as the Reign of Terror begins and France enters its darkest time. How will Marie survive the Revolution? Who will survive it with her? And just how will this girl come to be known as the woman behind one of the most famous museums in the world?
Download or read book The Romance of Madame Tussaud s written by John Theodore Tussaud and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating book and its fascination consists in two things attaching to its subject: first that the famous collection of modelled portraits which has become a sort of national institution in England under the name of “Madame Tussaud’s” has its roots in the greatest period of modern history, the French Revolution; second, in that the complete and growing record has passed through so many changes and has yet survived. Even though the famous collection had dealt with nothing more than the main figures of the Revolution and of the great wars that followed it, it would have been a possession of permanent and lasting historical value. I am not sure that if it had so remained, stopped short at the effigies of those now long dead, it would not now receive a greater respect. It might well in that case have become something recognised as a national possession, protected and preserved by the national government. For the prolongation of the record right on into our own time, while it very greatly increases the real value of the collection as a piece of historical evidence, yet deprives it of that illusion which men cannot avoid where history is concerned: the illusion that things thoroughly passed are in some way greater and of more consequence than contemporary things. This continuity of the great collection—so long as it is maintained with judgment in selection and without too much yielding to momentary fame is none the less a thing to be very thankful for. Already those of us who, like the present writer, are well on into middle age, can judge how the younger generation is beginning to regard as historical these simulacra, which, when they were first modelled, seemed in our own youth insignificant because they were contemporary. To our children (who are now grown and are young men and women), Disraeli, Gladstone, Bismarck—all the group that were old but living men in the eighties (Disraeli died at the beginning of them, Bismarck long after their close)—are what to us were Louis-Philippe, Garibaldi, Palmerston, and the process properly continued will be invaluable. We have already more than 130 years of record. There is no reason why it should not extend to the two centuries.
Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Pamela Pilbeam and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tussaud's catered for the public's fascination with monarchy, whether Henry VIII and his wives or Queen Victoria, as well as for their love of history, acting as an accessible and enjoyable museum. This work looks at Madame Tussaud herself and her exhibition as part of the wider history of wax modelling and of popular entertainment.
Download or read book Splendors and Glooms written by Laura Amy Schlitz and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her sorcery to a Victorian gothic thriller — an enthralling, darkly comic tale that would do Dickens proud. The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they appear alive. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, is spellbound by Grisini’s act and invites him to entertain at her birthday party. Seeing his chance to make a fortune, Grisini accepts and makes a splendidly gaudy entrance with caravan, puppets, and his two orphaned assistants. Lizzie Rose and Parsefall are dazzled by the Wintermute home. Clara seems to have everything they lack — adoring parents, warmth, and plenty to eat. In fact, Clara’s life is shadowed by grief, guilt, and secrets. When Clara vanishes that night, suspicion of kidnapping falls upon the puppeteer and, by association, Lizzie Rose and Parsefall. As they seek to puzzle out Clara’s whereabouts, Lizzie and Parse uncover Grisini’s criminal past and wake up to his evil intentions. Fleeing London, they find themselves caught in a trap set by Grisini’s ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it’s too late. Newbery Medal winner Laura Amy Schlitz’s Victorian gothic is a rich banquet of dark comedy, scorching magic, and the brilliant and bewitching storytelling that is her trademark.
Download or read book Monstrous Imagination written by Marie-Hélène Huet and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappeared, transformed, in the Romantic period are the questions explored in this book, a study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny.
Download or read book Madame Tussaud Sons Exhibition Catalogue Containing Biographical Descriptive Sketches of the Distinguished Characters which Compose Their Exhibition Historical Gallery written by Madame Tussaud and Sons' Exhibition and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fascinating Madame Tussaud written by André-Paul Duchâteau and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2013-01-22T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, 1793. Marie Crossholz manages the wax museum set up by her father. In exchange for bribes, some executioners allow her to mould the faces of guillotined aristocrats... After the French Revolution, Marie Crossholz becomes Mrs Tussaud. Disappointed by the marriage, she leaves for London with the ambition to create a wax museum there. New fights and other tumultuous adventures await her... Thirty years later, in 1835, she inaugurates the famous Tussaud Museum of Baker Street in London, which today continues to grow with new celebrities and attracts millions of visitors!
Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteenth Street NW written by Rex Ghosh and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom fighter Sophia Gemaye comes from a mineral-rich, third-world nation where the ruling elite plunders much of the country's wealth. To bring attention to the plight of her people, Sophia turns to economic terrorism, devising a plan to sabotage world currency markets.
Download or read book Madame Tussaud s Chamber of Horrors written by Pauline Chapman and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Let s Take the Kids to London written by David Stewart White and published by Castlerigg Press. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not everyone travels the same way. Traveling with children? That definitely requires a unique perspective. Overseas travel presents different challenges than a family trip to the beach, but the experiences can be more rewarding. Let's Take the Kids to London helps readers plan a successful family trip to London. This in-depth guide is full of sightseeing and hands-on experiences for traveling families. More than 130 color photographs let readers imagine themselves in destinations throughout London and the nearby countryside. Concentrating on family-focused adventures, Let's Take the Kids to London shares both fun facts and need-to-know information about classic destinations - the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, the London Zoo, Westminster Abbey, the London Eye, and many more. The book devotes equal attention to lesser-known attractions such as the Florence Nightingale Museum, the Churchill War Rooms, Coram's Fields, and the Postal Museum. Let's Take the Kids to London also guides readers on field trips to nearby Greenwich, Windsor, Hampton Court, Kew, and Oxfordshire. Let's Take the Kids to London shows readers the many ways London loves kids. Culture and colorful history come to life in this expert travel guide with useful planning advice, written by parents, for parents. Fully revised and updated in its sixth edition, this book provides insights that travelers will not easily find on their phones or in a Google search. Let's Take the Kids to London is the travel guidebook that can help turn dreams of a family trip to London into reality.
Download or read book Madame Tussaud s Souvenir written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
