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| Books LLC : People From Lancashire: Nellie Farren, Charles Cowper, Robert Barrie, Jackie Burroughs, David Macaulay, Frank Bennett, Jo Beverley, Diane Coyle | |
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Books LLC
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People From Lancashire: Nellie Farren, Charles Cowper, Robert Barrie, Jackie Burroughs, David Macaulay, Frank Bennett, Jo Beverley, Diane Coyle |
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English |
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Paperback |
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150 |
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2010-05-28 |
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1157124828 |
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Books LLC |
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0.5 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.31 inches |
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Product Description
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Nellie Farren, Charles Cowper, Robert Barrie, Jackie Burroughs, David Macaulay, Frank Bennett, Jo Beverley, Diane Coyle, Edward A. Irving, George Harwood, Humphrey Yates, Ernest Powell, Lynne Hamilton, Roger the Poitevin, Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, Ada Jones, William Sansome Tucker, Tom Mottram, Iain Murray, Thomas Burns, Charles Thompson, Michael Mingos, Joanne Colan, Tony Bell, Roger Evans, John Southworth, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Ray Hill, Ray Connolly, Herbert Shutt, Simon Towneley, Richard Hetherington, William Barrow, Robert Anderton, John William Diggle, Thomas Cottam, Norreys, Edward Harrison, John Grisdale, James Hutchinson, Enos Nuttall, Hardy Falconer Parsons, Frederick de Jersey Clere, Roger de Montbegon, Jasper Mcluckie, Andy Mapple, John Sharples, Sr., Ralph Shaa, John Atherton. Excerpt: Nellie Farren (1848 29 April 1904) was an English actress and singer best known for her roles as the "principal boy" in musical burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre. Born into a theatrical family, Farren began acting as a child. She made her professional adult debut in 1864 and joined the company at London's Olympic Theatre, performing in Shakespeare, contemporary comedies, dramas and musical burlesques. From 1868 to 1892, she performed at the Gaiety Theatre, which specialised in musical burlesque, becoming famous in the male and principal boy roles, which permitted an actress in the Victorian era theatre to show her legs in tights. Farren gained a large following among the theatre's mostly male audience. Farren created the role of Mercury in Gilbert and Sullivan's first collaboration, Thespis and created or played roles in works by Dion Boucicault, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, William Congreve and Henry James Byron, among many others.... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13568000
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