Vesta Tilley
- ISBN-10
- 0860687953
- ISBN-13
- 9780860687955
- Category
- Entertainers
- Pages
- 148
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Author
- Sara Maitland
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