Download or read book The Life of Laura Keene written by John Creahan and published by Philadelphia : Rodgers Publishing Company. This book was released on 1897 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Laura Keene written by John Creahan and published by Philadelphia : Rodgers Publishing Company. This book was released on 1897 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laura Keene written by Ben Graf Henneke and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a chapter on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Download or read book The Life of Laura Keene written by John Creahan and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Laura Keene written by John Creahan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Laura Keene: Actress, Artist, Manager and Scholar It was the intention of Emma Taylor, had she lived, to write the life of her mother. The thought that she was not to be spared to do so, greatly increased the suffering of the closing days of a woman whose life had been such that, like her sister, she was but too anxious to again be in the companionship of her mother, not in death, but life, for what is life in this world compared with eternity or the hereafter? "It will perhaps be asked," says Gounod, in his "Mors et Vita," "why, in the title, I have placed death before life. It is because, in the order of eternal things, death precedes life, although in the order of temporal things, life precedes death. Death is only the end of that existence which dies each day." The present work is entirely the result of accident, and not until late in December, 1894, did I for a moment imagine that I should be called on to perform a duty which to me has been largely a labor of love, entwined as it has been with sad, pathetic and sorrowful memories. Had it occurred to me during the life of Miss Keene's daughters that this work would have been a possibility or necessity, I might have received much information which must now ever remain unknown, unwritten and untold. Under the circumstances, I had but the knowledge of my subject to rely on, together with the information which has been so generously given me by Miss Keene's professional associates and friends, to whom I am more than indebted for their proverbial courtesy and encouragement. 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 The Life of Laura Keene Actress Artist Manager and Scholar Together with Some Interesting Reminiscences of Her Daughter written by John Creahan and published by Wylie Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book The life of Laura Keene Actress artist manager and scholar Together with some interesting reminiscences of her daughters By John Creahan written by John Creahan and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our American Duchess written by Vernanne Bryan and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our American Duchess: A Biography of Laura Keene presents the extraordinary life of Laura Keene, the sole manager and successful owner of a theatre in New York City and one of the most influential members of the 19th century theatre community. Her success is even more remarkable when one considers the era in which she lived. While most of the actresses of her day depended upon spouses or fathers, Keene was both self-motivated and self-supporting, raising her two daughters alone. Her production of "Our American Cousin" was being performed at the Ford Theater the night Lincoln was assassinated. While Lincoln lay dying, Laura helped stop the riot in the theater and held the President on her lap until he could be moved. The horrific events of that night sparked a dramatic change in Laura's life as she was pursued and hounded by those macabrely seeking pieces of her bloody dress.This comprehensive biography captures the true adventure story of a fascinating woman while detailing the history of 19th century theatre and American Civil War.
Download or read book The Life Of Laura Keene written by John Creahan and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 298 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 Woman of Worth written by Laura Keene and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an African American woman whose life spans the twentieth century, A Woman of Worth is a deeply moving look at the struggles and joys of growing up in West Philadelphia and Wildwood, New Jersey, surrounded by the love of family and the faith of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Laura Keene tells the story of her childhood in the days of segregation, her young adulthood during the civil rights movement, and her long marriage to artist and Tuskegee airman Paul Keene. Her direct personal style will take you with her as she travels in the circle of American artists abroad. From Philadelphia to Paris to Haiti, A Woman of Worth is an important record of a woman's life as she pursues her passion for education as a library clerk, student nurse and elementary school teacher. This true story of what it was like to be young and black in America will inspire you with the power of family, faith and love, and have you celebrating Laura Keene's long fulfilling life.
Download or read book Our American Duchess written by Vernanne Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Trial in American Life written by Robert A. Ferguson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bravura performance that ranges from Aaron Burr to O. J. Simpson, Robert A. Ferguson traces the legal meaning and cultural implications of prominent American trials across the history of the nation. His interdisciplinary investigation carries him from courtroom transcripts to newspaper accounts, and on to the work of such imaginative writers as Emerson, Thoreau, William Dean Howells, and E. L. Doctorow. Ferguson shows how courtrooms are forced to cope with unresolved communal anxieties and how they sometimes make legal decisions that change the way Americans think about themselves. Burning questions control the narrative. How do such trials mushroom into major public dramas with fundamental ideas at stake? Why did outcomes that we now see as unjust enjoy such strong communal support at the time? At what point does overexposure undermine a trial’s role as a legal proceeding? Ultimately, such questions lead Ferguson to the issue of modern press coverage of courtrooms. While acknowledging that media accounts can skew perceptions, Ferguson argues forcefully in favor of full television coverage of them—and he takes the Supreme Court to task for its failure to grasp the importance of this issue. Trials must be seen to be understood, but Ferguson reminds us that we have a duty, currently ignored, to ensure that cameras serve the court rather than the media. The Trial in American Life weaves Ferguson’s deep knowledge of American history, law, and culture into a fascinating book of tremendous contemporary relevance. “A distinguished law professor, accomplished historian, and fine writer, Robert Ferguson is uniquely qualified to narrate and analyze high-profile trials in American history. This is a superb book and a tremendous achievement. The chapter on John Brown alone is worth the price of admission.”—Judge Richard Posner “A noted scholar of law and literature, [Ferguson] offers a work that is broad in scope yet focuses our attention on certain themes, notably the possibility of injustice, as illustrated by the Haymarket and Rosenberg prosecutions; the media’s obsession with pandering to baser instincts; and the future of televised trials. . . . One of the best books written on this subject in quite some time.”—Library Journal, starred review
Download or read book Laura Keene the Actress who played in Our American Cousin at Ford s Theatre Washington when President Lincoln was shot written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who was Laura Keene written by Agnes Barton and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Laura Keene ... is most famous for being the lead actress in the play Our American, which was attended by President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., on the evening of his assassination"--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Keene.
Download or read book My Thoughts Be Bloody written by Nora Titone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Nora Titone takes a fresh look at the strange and startling history of the Booth brothers, answering the question of why one became the nineteenth-century’s brightest, most beloved star, and the other became the most notorious assassin in American history. The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. Yet who Booth really was—besides a killer—is less well known. The magnitude of his crime has obscured for generations a startling personal story that was integral to his motivation. My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes’s older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln’s assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country’s most notorious assassin. The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln’s assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family—and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, readers will see Abraham Lincoln’s death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage.
Download or read book Laura Keene in America 1852 1873 written by Dorothy Jean Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
