{"product_id":"9781429936736","title":"Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe life of actress Charlotte Charke transports us through the splendors and scandals of eighteenth-century London and its wicked theatrical world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth century's great actor\/playwrights-the toast of the British aristocracy, a favorite of the king. When his high-spirited, often rebellious daughter, Charlotte, revealed a fondness for things theatrical, it was thought that the young actress would follow in his footsteps at the legendary Drury Lane, creating a brilliant career on the London stage. But this was not to be. And it was not that Charlotte lacked talent-she was gifted, particularly at comedy. Troublesome, however, was her habit of dressing in men's clothes-a preference first revealed onstage but adopted elsewhere after her disastrous marriage to an actor, who became the last man she ever loved. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathryn Shevelow, an expert on the sophisticated world of eighteenth-century London (the setting for classics such as \u003ci\u003eTom Jones \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMoll Flanders\u003c\/i\u003e), re-creates Charlotte's downfall from the heights of London's theatrical world to its lascivious lows (the domain of fire-eaters, puppeteers, wastrels, gender-bending cross-dressers, wenches, and scandalous sorts of every variety) and her comeback as the author of one of the first autobiographies ever written by a woman. Beyond the appealingly unorthodox Charlotte, Shevelow masterfully recalls for us a historical era of extraordinary stylishness, artifice, character, interest, and intrigue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141700763888,"sku":"9781429936736","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429936736_p0.jpg?v=1769902591","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429936736","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}