Sarah Bernhardt manuscripts and portraits
Sarah Bernhardt manuscripts and portraits

Author: Sarah Bernhardt

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Published: 1878

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Includes an essay paying tribute to the personal style and comportment of American women, and arguing that they should have a style of their own rather than adopting European fashions (1911 September 20). The last sentence and the signature at the end are in Bernhardt's hand; the rest of the essay is in a different hand. With the essay is an English translation in another hand. Also, a small collection of notes and portraits, most of them mounted on card stock, along with a printed advertisement for a production of Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca, at the Garden Theatre, Madison Square Garden, starring Bernhardt (February, no year). The notes include two theater passes in Bernhardt's hand (Boston, 1896 April 2-3) and an autograph (1892). Portraits include two photographs of Bernhardt, one of them showing her with her bust of Medea in her sculpture studio in Montmartre (circa 1878); and one photo of a painted portrait of her by Jules Bastien-Lepage (1879).

Sarah
Sarah

Author: Robert Gottlieb

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-09-21

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0300168799

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Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career--redefining the very nature of her art--to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life, to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I and toured America for the ninth time. Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, this is the first English-language biography to appear in decades, tracking the trajectory through which an illegitimate--and scandalous--daughter of a Jewish courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.--From publisher description.