Sarah Bernhardt

Aiming to make a career like Bernhardt , Edith Alice Harper (later AW ) moved to Paris to study voice with Jean de Reszke .

NH had her first romantic relationship at the London School of Art , with another student known among her circle as The Genius. He specialized in painting souls in torture.NH posed...

NCB has been a magnet for biographers (recently as the subject with Romaine Brooks of Diana Souhami 's Wild Girls in 2004 and as a minor character in Joan Schenkar 's Truly Wilde: the Unsettling...

JSW had an extensive social circle in London—her biographer, Oliver Bainbridge , notes that a number of social claims were made upon her by reason of her popularity, and that these were always in advance...

EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman . She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

Despite her wide reading, excellent education for a woman, and Oxford connections, MAWs' trip to Paris in 1874 opened her eyes intellectually. It brought her into contact with Ernest Renan , Madame Mohl , Hippolyte Taine

This volume announced the sapphic theme which became central to NCB 's work. The poems were inspired by various women—Liane de Pougy , Sarah Bernhardt , Princess Troubetzkoy (Amelia Reeves) , and others—thinly disguised...

This leisurely novel centres on the relation of the present to the past, on ancestors (particularly grandmothers), and on the never-satisfied desire to know our origins. Isamay seems naive and immature: her somewhat desultory research...

The play opens in Hollywood, with Mrs Patrick Campbell regaling a new, American generation with her memories. It centres on her relationship with George Bernard Shaw , but her life and career are also...

Rehearsals had begun with famed actress Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. OW may or may not have written the part with her in mind. In 1893 the French text was published at Paris and...

The letters were lengthy, running between 3,000 and 5,000 words, and covered diverse topics including politics, society and fashion, and particularly contemporary literature and drama. FSH is enthusiastic about Sir Henry Irving , but describes...