Format:
XX, 347 S
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Ill
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24 cm
ISBN:
9781599216027
Content:
She was as American as ambition, as human as sex, as transcendent as love. America’s first international superstar, actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–68) was a woman whose life crossed paths with the most famous men and women of the Victorian Age. The first in the line of Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, and Marilyn Monroe, she scandalized audiences in New York, San Francisco, London, and Paris with her provocative performances; entertained a country ripped apart by Civil War; and influenced the lives of Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Sarah Bernhardt, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-339) and index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Menken, Adah Isaacs 1835-1868
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Biografie
