Entertaining Women (eBook)

Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West

Chris Enss (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
224 Seiten
Twodot (Verlag)
978-1-4422-4734-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection of short stories of the women who entertained the West in makeshift theaters and palaces built to showcase the divas who were beloved by emigrants to the ';uncivilized' West will feature well-known and lesser known dancers, singers, and actresses and their exploits. Author Chris Enss will bring her comedic timing and long experience writing about the time and culture of the West to this collection.

Autor

Chris Enss is an award-winning screen writer who has written for television, short subject films, live performances, and for the movies, and is the co-author (with JoAnn Chartier) of Love Untamed: True Romances Stories of the Old West, Gilded Girls: Women Entertainers of the Old West, and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon: Women Patriots and Soldiers of the Old West and The Cowboy and the Senorita; Happy Trails; The Young Duke; Thunder Over the Prairie; Object:Matrimony; and The Death Row All Stars. She lives in Grass Valley, California.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.10.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Actresses • Adah Menken • Arias • brothel • Caroline Chapman • Catherine Hayes • Catherine Norton Sinclair • Charlotte Cushman • Chris Enss • Dance Hall • Dancers • daredevels • Entertaining Women • Gambling • Gold rush • Helena Modjeska • Jeanne Eagels • Laura Keene • Leslie Carter • Lillian Russell • Mary Anderson • Matilda Heron • miners • mining boomtowns • Nineteenth century • Old West • operas • performers • personal tragedy • Playhouses • regional history • Saloon • Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Kirby Stark • Shakespeare • Singers • Stories • theatres • Women's history
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-4734-7 / 1442247347
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4734-5 / 9781442247345