Description
For lovers of classics such as Tom Jones, Moll Flanders, or Vanity Fair, here is a heroine as irresistible as Moll or Becky Sharp. But Charlotte Charke (1713-1760) actually lived. And that was only the beginning Charlotte is winner of the Theatre Library Association's Freedley Award
About the Author
A specialist in eighteenth-century British literature and culture, Kathryn Shevelow has been an award-winning professor at the University of California in San Diego for twenty years. She lives in Solana Beach, California.
Reviews
'Precocious, gifted, charismatic, and eccentric, Charlotte Charke illuminated the eighteenth century with the fleeting brightness of a shooting star. Kathryn Shevelow has written a remarkable book which admirably captures this most elusive of social rebels' Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana 'Shevelow writes well and wittily, and captures the gamut of the eighteenth-century theatrical world, from its heights in Drury Lane - which went to Charlotte's bewigged head - to its depths among rural travelling players, where she ended up as a result' Sunday Times 'Charlotte is a remarkably learned and even more remarkably entertaining history - not only of a truly fascinating and startlingly-original woman, but also of her times and culture. Kathryn Shevelow brings to life the madness, absurdity and baseness of 18th-century Britain, and the recreates for modern readers the fascinating peculiarities of its theater world. This is a brilliant piece of popular history' David Liss, author of A Conspiracy of Paper 'Quite the spectacle was Charlotte: actress, cross-dresser and general hell-raiser' Washington Post
Book Information
ISBN 9780747579588
Author Kathryn Shevelow
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC