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Nina Auerbach brilliantly reveals the Ellen Terry whose roles, on stage and off, embodied everything that a rapidly changing world exhorted women to be.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 528
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: New Cultural Studies
Publication Date:
January 29, 1997
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.12 in
ISBN: 9780812216134
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography: arts and entertainment, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
"Auerbach writes beautifully. . . . In this biography of Ellen Terry, she evokes the story of every woman's life, in all its accepted roles. . . . England's most famous actress is here re-created, herself creating the life of woman. A glorious book."
"One of the finest examples I know of theatre biography as cultural history. . . . Auerbach's force of feeling . . . [makes us] understand Terry's career as the bowdlerized body of woman's expressive genius in the Victorian age. . . . A life-and-times classic that will become a model for other feminist work."
"One of the finest examples I know of theatre biography as cultural history. . . . Auerbach's force of feeling . . . [makes us] understand Terry's career as the bowdlerized body of woman's expressive genius in the Victorian age. . . . A life-and-times classic that will become a model for other feminist work."