Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Memoirs

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The Johnsons have identified 427 autobiographies of people in the theatre and related performing fields, including producers, managers, and backstage folk as well as actors. For each memoir a list of editions is given along with an annotation giving a brief resume of the author's career and any special topics with which the book deals. ... A useful work for theater and performing arts collections and possibly for students of history, since the index attempts to bring out the economic and social conditions under which the authors worked.-Choice
"The Johnsons have identified 427 autobiographies of people in the theatre and related performing fields, including producers, managers, and backstage folk as well as actors. For each memoir a list of editions is given along with an annotation giving a brief resume of the author's career and any special topics with which the book deals. ... A useful work for theater and performing arts collections and possibly for students of history, since the index attempts to bring out the economic and social conditions under which the authors worked."-Choice

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CLAUDIA DURST JOHNSON is Professor Emerita at the University of Alabama, where she chaired the English Department for 12 years. She is series editor of the Greenwood Press Literature in Context series, for which she has authored several other books. She is also author of To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries (1994) and The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art (1981), as well as numerous articles on American literature and theatre.