Life of Mrs. Siddons

Life of Mrs. Siddons
Author: Thomas Campbell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1834
Genre: Actors
ISBN:

Being a very rough draft of the biography with corrections and additions.

A Passion for Performance

A Passion for Performance
Author: Shelley Bennett
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1999-09-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892365579

A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate the eventful life, both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.

Look to the Lady

Look to the Lady
Author: Russ McDonald
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780820325064

"McDonald also discerns parallels and distinctions in the approaches of Siddons, Terry, and Dench to the vocation of acting - specifically to Lady Macbeth and other great Shakespearean roles. Look to the Lady also helps us to better understand the place and function of the theater in British national life and what constitutes "great acting" at various historical moments." "Throughout, McDonald blends learned commentary on the history and culture of the stage with entertaining details about the appearance, personality, genealogy, and private life of each actor. Including some rarely seen images and drawing on previously untapped reviews and anecdotes, this is a lively introduction to the burgeoning field of performance criticism."--BOOK JACKET.

The Kemble Era

The Kemble Era
Author: Linda Kelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1980
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Fox's Earth

Fox's Earth
Author: Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2008-05-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416544968

A woman rises out of poverty to rule a family dynasty, in this extravagant Southern tale of greed and manipulation by a "New York Times"-bestselling author.

The Girls of August

The Girls of August
Author: Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0446565849

Anne Rivers Siddons's New York Times bestselling novel about four friends whose lives are forever changed by the events of one summer. For fifteen years, four "girls of August" would gather together to spend a week at the beach, until tragedy interrupts their ritual. Now they reunite for a startling week of discoveries. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they decide to come together once again on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast. There, far from civilization, the women uncover secrets that will change them in ways they never expected.

Life of Mrs. Siddons

Life of Mrs. Siddons
Author: Thomas Campbell
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2019-03-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780530272467

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Heartbreak Hotel

Heartbreak Hotel
Author: Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2007-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416544909

Novel-1956 with Eisenhower in White House, girl at southern university dealing with time of Elvis, and a changing society.