Excerpt from Sarah Bernhardt: A Biographical and Critical Sketch My object in issuing this memoir has been twofold. In the first place, there is a natural desire on the part of the public to learn something of the career 0/ every artist who visits this country. That desire is intensified when the artist is so illustrious as Sarah Bernhardt. Her name, at least, is familiar to the play-goers of Australia, although she has not yet acted here. But her achievements are not so well-known. She is the heroine of a thousand and one ...
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Excerpt from Sarah Bernhardt: A Biographical and Critical Sketch My object in issuing this memoir has been twofold. In the first place, there is a natural desire on the part of the public to learn something of the career 0/ every artist who visits this country. That desire is intensified when the artist is so illustrious as Sarah Bernhardt. Her name, at least, is familiar to the play-goers of Australia, although she has not yet acted here. But her achievements are not so well-known. She is the heroine of a thousand and one anecdotes, some of them questionable, few of them true. It is no secret that, at one time, in order to jamiliarise herself with the idea of death, she adopted the gruesome plan of sleeping in a co in. As to her stage-life, however, but scant inform ation has, as yet, been published. The biographical dictionaries contain but superficial accounts of the greatest French actress since the days of the divine Rachel. Hitherto, no fair, unprejudiced, and, so far as may be, comprehensive memoir of this famous player. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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