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Book Synopsis Lotta Crabtree Papers by : Lotta Crabtree
Download or read book Lotta Crabtree Papers written by Lotta Crabtree and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated scripts, prompt copies, musical scores, notes, drawings, and other materials relating to Crabtree's musical theater productions, together with some family genealogies and correspondence.
Book Synopsis Lotta Crabtree Miscellany by : Lotta Crabtree
Download or read book Lotta Crabtree Miscellany written by Lotta Crabtree and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection consists of a letter from Crabtree to a friend (1897); Crabtree's autograph (undated); a roster of a San Francisco city block on which she owned a lot (undated); a Christmas card illustrated by a reproduction of a 1915 oil painting by Crabtree (undated); correspondence (1944) regarding the discovery and possible restoration of a piano once belonging to Crabtree; a typescript (undated) concerning the trust fund Crabtree established to rehabilitate men discharged from San Quentin and Folsom State Prisons; and newspaper clippings (1915, 1974) and typed copies of the text of newspaper articles about Crabtree from 1872-1909; and biographical notes (1942).
Download or read book Staging Family written by Nan Mullenneaux and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking every prescription of ideal femininity, American actresses of the mid-nineteenth century appeared in public alongside men, financially supported nuclear and extended families, challenged domestic common law, and traveled the globe in the transnational theater market. While these women expanded professional, artistic, and geographic frontiers, they expanded domestic frontiers as well: publicly, actresses used the traditional rhetoric of domesticity to mask their very nontraditional personal lives, instigating historically significant domestic innovations to circumvent the gender constraints of the mid-nineteenth century, reinventing themselves and their families in the process. Nan Mullenneaux focuses on the personal and professional lives of more than sixty women who, despite their diverse backgrounds, each made complex conscious and unconscious compromises to create profit and power. Mullenneaux identifies patterns of macro and micro negotiation and reinvention and maps them onto the waves of legal, economic, and social change to identify broader historical links that complicate notions of the influence of gendered power and the definition of feminism; the role of the body/embodiment in race, class, and gender issues; the relevance of family history to the achievements of influential Americans; and national versus inter- and transnational cultural trends. While Staging Family expands our understanding of how nineteenth-century actresses both negotiated power and then hid that power, it also informs contemporary questions of how women juggle professional and personal responsibilities—achieving success in spite of gender constraints and societal expectations.
Book Synopsis Troupers of the Gold Coast; Or, The Rise of Lotta Crabtree by : Constance Rourke
Download or read book Troupers of the Gold Coast; Or, The Rise of Lotta Crabtree written by Constance Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lotta Crabtree was very popular in San Francisco and in 1875 donated to the city a large water fountain, a gathering place for people after the earthquake and fire of 1906. The book discusses other actresses in late 19th century San Francisco.
Download or read book Lotta Crabtree Collection written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection contains clipping, misc., photograph and program files.
Book Synopsis The Triumphs and Trials of Lotta Crabtree by : David Dempsey
Download or read book The Triumphs and Trials of Lotta Crabtree written by David Dempsey and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lotta Crabtree Autographs by : Lotta Crabtree
Download or read book Lotta Crabtree Autographs written by Lotta Crabtree and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3 autographs cut from correspondence, and one leaf of a handwritten note to theatrical manager David A. ("Del") Bonta.
Book Synopsis The Dickensian by : Bertram Waldrom Matz
Download or read book The Dickensian written by Bertram Waldrom Matz and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by : Sara Lodge
Download or read book The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective written by Sara Lodge and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account—and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women’s lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine who got the better of love rats, burglars, and murderers alike. How did the morally ambiguous work of real women detectives, sometimes paid to betray their fellow women, compare with the exploits of their fictional counterparts, who always save the day? Lodge’s book takes us into the murky underworld of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the female detective as both an unacknowledged labourer and a feminist icon.
Book Synopsis Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920 by : Benjamin McArthur
Download or read book Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920 written by Benjamin McArthur and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forty years 1880 to 1920 marked the golden age of the American theatre as a national institution, a time when actors moved from being players outside the boundaries of respectable society to being significant figures in the social landscape. As the only book that provides an overview of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theatre, Actors and American Culture is also the only study of the legitimate stage that overtly attempts to connect actors and their work to the wider aspects of American life.
Download or read book Tap Roots written by Mark Knowles and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-06-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word "Tap" was first used in publicity to describe this new American style of dance, this text separates the cultural, societal and historical events that influenced the development of Tap dancing. Section One covers primary influences such as Irish step dancing, English clog dancing and African dancing. Section Two covers theatrical influences (early theatrical developments, "Daddy" Rice, the Virginia Minstrels) and Section Three covers various other influences (Native American, German and Shaker). Also included are accounts of the people present at tap's inception and how various styles of dance were mixed to create a new art form.
Book Synopsis Library Service by : Detroit Public Library
Download or read book Library Service written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes 4-14 include 55th-65th Annual report of the Detroit library commission. 1919/20-1929/30.
Book Synopsis Women's History Sources: Collections by : Andrea Hinding
Download or read book Women's History Sources: Collections written by Andrea Hinding and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Woman's Home Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sierra Stories written by Gary Noy and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Gold Rush Stories shares tales of the larger-than-life characters from the history of the legendary Sierra Nevada mountain range. With its 14,000-foot granite mountains, crystalline lakes, conifer forests, and hidden valleys, the Sierra Nevada has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Stories abound, and characters emerge so outlandish and outrageous that they must be real. Could the human imagination have invented someone like Eliza Gilbert? Born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1818, she transformed herself into Lola Montez, born in Seville, Spain, in 1823, and brought to the Gold Country the provocative “Spider Dance”—impersonating a young woman repelling a legion of angry spiders under her petticoats. Or Otto Esche, who in 1860 imported fifteen two-humped Bactrian camels from Asia to transport goods to the mines. Or the artist Albert Bierstadt, whose paintings Mark Twain characterized as having “more the atmosphere of Kingdom-Come than of California.” Or multimillionaire George Whittell Jr., who was frequently spotted driving around Lake Tahoe in a luxurious convertible with his pet lion in the front seat. These, and scores more, spill out of the pages of this well-illustrated and lively tribute to the Sierra by a native son.
Book Synopsis A Spectacle of Suffering by : Barbara Wallace Grossman
Download or read book A Spectacle of Suffering written by Barbara Wallace Grossman and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-02-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once called "America's greatest actress," renowned for the passion and power of her performances, Clara Morris (1847-1925) has been largely forgotten. A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage is the first full-length study of the actress's importance as a feminist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Detailing her daunting health problems and the changing tastes in entertainment that led to her retirement from the stage, Barbara Wallace Grossman explores Morris's dramatic reinvention as an author. During a second robust career, she published hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and nine books—six works of fiction and three memoirs. Grossman draws on the fifty-four-volume diary that Morris kept from 1868 until 1924, as well as on the manuscript fragments and notes of journalist George T. MacAdam, who died in 1929 before completing the actress's biography. Grossman provides a dramatic account of Morris's life and work from her troubled early years, through an unhappy marriage, morphine addiction, and invalidism, to the challenges of touring, the decline of her artistic reputation, and the demands of the writing career she pursued so tenaciously. A Spectacle of Suffering reveals how Morris, even after experiencing blindness and the loss of her home, livelihood, and family, did not succumb to despair and found comfort in the small pleasures of her circumscribed life. A Spectacle of Suffering recovers an important figure in American theatre and ensures that Morris will be remembered not simply as an actress but as a respected writer and beloved public figure, admired for her courage in dealing with adversity. The book, which is enhanced by twenty-four illustrations, is the only published biography of Clara Morris. It is as much a tribute to the power of the human spirit as it is an effective means of exploring American theatre and society in the Gilded Age.
Download or read book Who's who in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
