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100 1 $aShevelow, Kathryn,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88026991
245 10 $aCharlotte :$bbeing a true account of an actress's flamboyant adventures in eighteenth-century London's wild and wicked theatrical world /$cKathryn Shevelow.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bH. Holt,$c2005.
300 $axii, 433 pages :$billustrations, music ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [407]-414) and index.
520 1 $a"A woman of rare talents and high spirits, Charlotte Charke (1713-1760) was an actress who delighted in scandalizing proper society - whenever she could. Her London was a stage writ large where bejeweled ladies rode in carriages past prostitutes and pickpockets, crowds munched gingerbread while watching hangings, and Mrs. Mapp the bonesetter realigned kneecaps for fascinated crowds. Yet even among the spectacles of her stylish, savage metropolis, Charlotte stood out as a self-described "Nonpareil of the Age." Every day of her life was a grand performance." "The daughter of Colley Cibber, a brilliant comic actor famous for foppery, Charlotte was unconventional - even by the standards of her theatrical family. She raised eyebrows with her disdain for needlework and her taste for guns, but when she stepped on stage, none of it mattered. After making her reputation by playing men, she began dressing in breeches offstage as well. When her father and family disowned her, her life became a picaresque adventure extending from the pinnacles of posh London to its dangerous depths." "Kathryn Shevelow captures Charlotte - artist, survivor, mother, wife, and ultimately, husband, too - in all her guises, from her time among the dueling divas of the glamorous Drury Land Theatre to her trials as a strolling player and puppeteer, to her comeback as the author of My Unaccountable Life, one of the first autobiographies ever written by a woman."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aCharke, Charlotte,$d1713-1760.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83124461
650 0 $aActors$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100558
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