Performing Herself - Autobiography and Fanny Kelly''s Dramatic Recollections

This book contains the never-before published script of what is most probably the first ever one-woman show. "Dramatic recollections" was performed by Fanny Kelly in Britain across two decades in the 1830s and 1840s. It is based on Kelly's own experiences and offers a unique picture of the exuberant and often bizarre Georgian entertainment world.

Product details

• Authors: Gilli Bush-Bailey
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2011
• EAN: 9780719079214
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7921-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Women, Theatre and Performance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet