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FOREWORDS INTRODUCTION: PAINTING ACTRESSES' LIVES by GILL PERRY THE ACTRESSES: A SELECTION OF BIOGRAPHIES: NELL GWYN - HESTER BOOTH - LAVINIA FENTON KITTY CLIVE - PEG WOFFINGTON - FRANCES ABINGTON ELIZABETH INCHBALD - GIOVANNA BACCELLI ELIZABETH ANN SHERIDAN - SARAH SIDDONS - MARY ROBINSON ELIZABETH FARREN - DOROTHY JORDAN - ELIZABETH BILLINGTON NELL GWYN AND COVENT GARDEN GODDESSES by JOSEPH ROACH DIVAS, DANCING AND THE RAGE FOR MUSIC by GILL PERRY BEAUTY, AGEING AND THE BODY POLITIC by SHEARER WEST STAR SYSTEMS: THEN AND NOW by GILL PERRY NOTES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF WORKS INDEX

About the Author

Gill Perry is Professor of Art History and Director of External Collaborations in the Art History Department at the Open University. Her most recent publication, Spectacular Flirtations, explores issues of gender, spectatorship and femininity in eighteenth-century theatrical portraits. Joseph Roach is Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater at Yale University. Shearer West is Professor of Art History, Birmingham University and AHRC Head of Research.