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Marie Prescott
This book documents the life and career of Marie Prescott (1850-93), an actress of great beauty and wit, who directed and starred in Oscar Wilde's first play, Vera, or the Nihilists. Like Wilde, Prescott struggled to reconcile her artistic aspirations with her financial goals and to assert her independence from the social restraints of her day; she also had a complicated love life. Her compelling story is marked by the sensational elements of opening nights, vengeful critics, bitter feuds, insanity, missing persons, lawsuits, divorces, and sexual obsession. In all of this, Marie Prescott remained a figure of impressive intellect and will. Her lively correspondence with Wilde, her erudite lec...
Artist File
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Judith Joy Ross
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Stanford Alumni
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Papers of Judith Crossley
Papers of singer/songwriter Judith Crossley, including biographical information (such as early schooling, diaries, nursing certificates and papers re public speaking); original songs, prose and poetry; photographs; sound recordings and videos; ephemera and other papers, medals and trophies.
Judith Cobb
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