Introducing Charlotte Charke
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The notorious troublemaker Charlotte Charke worked as a novelist, autobiographer, and strolling actress. But it was as a cross-dresser -- both on stage and off -- that she scandalized eighteenth-century England. Known as Mr. Charles Brown, she lived openly with another woman for nearly a decade. Charke, daughter of Colley Cibber, the English playwright and poet laureate (1740), lived a life of masquerade. Her autobiography is a fascinating document...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:025202415X
ISBN13:9780252024153
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:250 Pages
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