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Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, this is the first English-language biography to appear in decades, tracking the trajectory through which an illegitimate--and scandalous--daughter of a Jewish courtesan transformed herself into the ...
Sarah Bernardt (1844-1922) was een grote dame van het Franse theater.
Told in her own voice, this is Sarah Bernhardt’s incandescent story—a fascinating, intimate account of a woman whose unrivaled talent and indomitable spirit has enshrined her in history as the Divine Sarah.
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Her other project, with the help of Elizabeth Chanler Chapman, wife of the prominent American writer John Jay Chapman, and the Marchesa Etta de Viti de Marco (formerly Etta Dunham of Boston) was to look after Duse.
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actor who became a global superstar in the late nineteenth century--the Lady Gaga of her day--and is still considered to be one of the greatest performers of all time.
Bernhardt, Double vie, 353. Sarah Bernhardt, My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt, trans. Victoria Tietze Larson (Albany, 1999), 101. See Bernhardt's letter to the journalist Jouvin, ...
Powerfully rendered, exquisitely crafted in Barnes’s erudite style, this searing work confirms the author as an unparalleled magus of the heart.
He introduced me to his friends, Sir William Richmond, the painter, Mr. Andrew Lang, and Sir Hubert Parry, the composer, and each consented to give a conference—Sir William Richmond upon dancing in its relation to painting, Andrew Lang ...
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