Download or read book At the Highwayman s Pleasure written by Sarah Mallory and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masked vigilante lights a fire in the heart of a beautiful actress in this thrilling historical adventure. Captivated by the dark rider . . . Embittered by injustice, Ross Durden leads a double life: gentleman farmer by day, roguish highwayman by night. He has sworn to right the wrongs of the past, but danger lurks around every corner—not least when he sets eyes on the beautiful daughter of his sworn enemy. Celebrated actress Charity Weston is no stranger to disguises herself. But when a darkly daring masked man steals a kiss, she is drawn into a web of intrigue even she could never have imagined. Praise for At the Highwayman’s Pleasure “Revenge. Redemption. Romance. Mallory’s latest . . . is about an actress, a highwayman, and an evil duo who so deserve their comeuppance! Readers will enjoy the characters and the plot twists.” —RT Book Reviews

Download or read book Actors and Actresses by Different Writers Compiled from Various Magazines written by E T. Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Actor s Budget Consisting of Monologues Prologues Epilogues and Tales Serious and Comic written by William Oxberry and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book London s West End Actresses and the Origins of Celebrity Charity 1880 1920 written by Catherine Hindson and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s celebrity charity work has deep historical roots. In the 1880s and 1890s, the stars of fin-de-siècle London’s fashionable stage culture—particularly the women—transformed theatre’s connection with fundraising. They refreshed, remolded, and reenergized celebrity charity work at a time when organized benevolence and women’s public roles were also being transformed. In the process, actresses established a model and set of practices that persist today among the stars of both London’s West End and Hollywood. In the late nineteenth century, theatre’s fundraising for charitable causes shifted from male-dominated and private to female-directed and public. Although elite women had long been involved in such enterprises, they took on more authority in this period. At the same time, regular, high-profile public charity events became more important and much more visible than private philanthropy. Actresses became key figures in making the growing number of large and heavily publicized fundraisers successful. By 1920, the attitude was “Get an actress first. If you can’t get an actress, then get a duchess.” Actresses’ star power, their ability to orchestrate large events quickly, and their skill at performing a kind of genteel extortion made them essential to this model of charity. Actresses also benefited from this new role. Taking a prominent, public, offstage position was crucial in making them, individually and collectively, respectable professionals. Author Catherine Hindson reveals this history by examining the major types of charity events at the turn of the twentieth century, including fundraising matinees, charity bazaars and costume parties, theatrical tea and garden parties, and benefit performances. Her study concludes with a look at the involvement of actresses in raising funds for British soldiers serving in the Anglo-Boer War and the First World War.

Download or read book The Actor s Budget written by William Oxberry and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vanity written by Jane Feather and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the incomparable author of the national bestsellers Violet and Valentine comes a new triumph of romance. Brimming with passionate emotion and compelling adventure, here is Jane Feather at her most unforgettable. As the stranger’s arms closed around her, Octavia Morgan knew she’d just made the biggest mistake of her life. Picking pockets had seemed the only answer to her desperate plight. But now she’d been caught, and there was worse to come. For the dangerously attractive man she’d robbed was no common mark, but the most notorious highwayman in England. Haunted by his past and hungry for revenge, Lord Nick didn’t take kindly to being fleeced, especially by a ravishing thief with a deceptive air of innocence . . . until he realized that this reckless beauty could be the key to his long-sought vengeance. All he had to do was seduce her. All he had to do was ensnare her. All he had to do was enflame her . . . without letting this artful little pickpocket steal his heart.

Download or read book The actor s budget of wit and merriment written by William Oxberry and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book They Died on My Watch written by Noel Bailey and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was the actress who died just before Christmas? She was the voice of …..... in …...... Did Hitler commit suicide, or was he shot by Russian troops? Do you remember what year Princess Diana died in that car crash in Paris? How many husbands did Elizabeth Taylor divorce in her lifetime? What was that well known British actor who passed away right after David Bowie died? Questions you might hear at the next table of your favourite eatery. Questions you may or may not know the answer to. They Died on My Watch can answer these and many more. It is a comprehensive reference work that should prove itself indispensable to any household. Most certainly a book to sustain interest when cruising at 35,000 feet between London and New York. It might be seen as the ultimate ‘umpire’ to settle any argument that may arise within a discussion involving a deceased celebrity, recent or not.

Download or read book Our Actresses written by Margaret (Harries) Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Actresses written by Mrs. Cornwell Baron-Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Theatrical Banquet or the Actor s Budget consisting of monologues prologues addresses tales together with Collin s Evening Brush and a collection of theatrical anecdotes comic songs etc written by William OXBERRY and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Illustrated American written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Actresses of a Certain Character written by Axel Nissen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Information presented regarding birth, death, film credits and analyzes each player's unique talents, signature roles and career development. Representative range of backgrounds, character types and career experiences including actresses such as Agnes Moorehead, Thelma Ritter, Beulah Bondi, Sara Allgood, and Jessie Ralph, among others. A fascinating tour through Hollywood's big studio era and the lives of its characters"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors Actresses Musicians Dancers Managers Other Stage Personnel in London 1660 1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the works already published, these latest volumes of the Biographical Dictionary deal with theatre people of every ilk, ranging from dressers and one-performance actors to trumpeter John Shore (inventor of the tuning fork) and the incomparable Sarah Siddons. Also prominent is Susanna Rowson, a novelist, actress, and early female playwright. Although born into a British military family, Rowson often wrote plays that dealt with patriotic American themes and spent much of her career on the American stage. The theatrical jewel of these volumes is the "divine Sarah" Siddons: "She raised the tragedy to the skies," wrote William Hazlitt, and "embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and dignified mortals of elder time." She endured much tragedy herself, including a crippling debilitating illness and the deaths of five of her seven children. Siddons played major roles in both comedy and tragedy, not the least of which was a performance as Hamlet.

Download or read book An Anthology of Recitations Chosen by Famous Actors and Actresses written by Percy Cross Standing and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Cosmopolitan Actor written by J. Burdett Howe and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters of an Unsuccessful Actor written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: