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Author Shevelow, Kathryn, 1951-

Title Charlotte : being a true account of an actress's flamboyant adventures in eighteenth-century London's wild and wicked theatrical world / Kathryn Shevelow.

Publication Info. New York : H. Holt, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG CHARKE, CHARLOTTE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 433 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-414) and index.
Contents Cibbers (1660-1712) -- The impertinent intruder (1712-13) -- A passionate fondness for a periwig (1717-20) -- Educating Charlotte (1720-27) -- Laureate (1720-30) -- The provoked wife (1729-30) -- Chambermaids and pretty ment (1731-32) -- Show, show, show, show! (1732) -- Stormy weather (1732-33) -- Mutiny (1733) -- Wearing the breeches (1733-34) -- Mad company (1734-35) -- Cordelia, or, The art of management (1735-36) -- On the edge (1736) -- Bad acts (1737) -- Punch's Theatre (1737-38) -- Hard times (1738-41) -- Down and out in London (1741-44) -- A mind to get money (1742-46) -- A little, dirty kind of war (1746-53) -- The female husband (1752-54) -- The prodigal daughter (1755-56) -- Curtain calls (1757-60).
Subject Charke, Charlotte, 1713-1760.
Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
ISBN 0805073140
Standard No. 9780805073140
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