false 1337075 3 The life of actress Charlotte Charke transports us through the splendors and scandals of eighteenth-century London and its wicked theatrical world Her father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth century's great actor/playwrights-the toast of the British aristocracy, a favorite of the king. When his high-spirited, often rebellious daughter, Charlotte, revealed a fondness for things theatrical, it was thought that the young actress would follow in his footsteps at the legendary Drury Lane, creating a brilliant career on the London stage. But this was not to be. And it was not that Charlotte lacked talent-she was gifted, particularly at comedy. Troublesome, however, was her habit of dressing in men's clothes-a preference first revealed onstage but adopted elsewhere after her disastrous marriage to an actor, who became the last man she ever loved. Kathryn Shevelow, an expert on the sophisticated world of eighteenth-century London (the setting for classics such as Tom Jones and Moll Flanders), re-creates Charlotte's downfall from the heights of London's theatrical world to its lascivious lows (the domain of fire-eaters, puppeteers, wastrels, gender-bending cross-dressers, wenches, and scandalous sorts of every variety) and her comeback as the author of one of the first autobiographies ever written by a woman. Beyond the appealingly unorthodox Charlotte, Shevelow masterfully recalls for us a historical era of extraordinary stylishness, artifice, character, interest, and intrigue. 1326631 4 4 2005 Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World total:8|5:2|4:2|3:2|2:1|1:1| 8 27 19 4 5 0 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 11:26:33 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 11:26:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 20:06:54 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 16:04:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jan 08 19:11:14 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 19:22:20 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Wed Jan 23 14:06:21 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 14:07:26 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Sep 23 06:03:56 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 09:08:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 22 21:45:08 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 15:22:30 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Wed Jul 22 20:56:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 20:56:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 09 02:07:49 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 02:07:56 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 06 10:57:55 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 10:58:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 27 23:38:27 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 23:38:27 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 28 13:25:32 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 13:25:32 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Sep 01 20:04:48 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 20:04:48 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Aug 17 12:28:25 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 12:28:30 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jul 21 13:04:57 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 06 12:14:03 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jul 07 13:36:48 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 13:36:48 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Mar 25 12:34:07 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 12:34:07 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Feb 04 16:43:48 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 16:43:48 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Oct 25 16:18:36 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 09:35:22 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Mon Jun 25 23:52:25 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 23:52:27 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2145983