Actresses
Here are entered works on female actors collectively. Works on male actors collectively are entered under Male actors. General works on both male and female actors collectively, works on both male and female stage actors collectively and works on individual male and female stage actors are entered under Actors. Works on actors, collectively or individually, specializing in particular media are entered under the appropriate specific heading, e.g. Television actors and actresses, with an additional heading Male actors or Actresses, assigned as appropriate to works of collective biography.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Actresses -- 19th century
- Actresses -- Biography
- Actresses -- Drama
- Actresses -- England
- Actresses -- Fiction
- Actresses -- Great Britain
- Actresses -- Ireland
- Actresses -- United States
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Television actors and actresses
- Women comedians
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
- Fonda, Jane, 1937-
- Guilbert, Yvette, 1865-1944
- Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893
- Lloyd, Harold, 1893-1971
- Lowell, Joan, 1900-1967
- Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942
- Robins, Elizabeth, 1862-1952
- Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Starr, Henry, 1873-1921
- Female actors
- Women actors
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Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)- Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
- Mimic Life, or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Series of Narratives (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at MOA)
- An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)
- Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by E. Owens Blackburne
- The "Mind the Paint" Girl (comedy in 4 acts), by Arthur Wing Pinero (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML with music, and page images)
- The Half Sisters: A Tale (cheap edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1854), by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Tragic Muse (based on the 1-volume 1891 edition, with commentary), by Henry James, ed. by Adrian Dover (HTML at the Ladder)
- The Tragic Muse (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
- Mistress Nell Gwyn: A Novel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Avenger (tenth edition; London: J. Long, c1926), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Phantom Herd (1916), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
- Silver Screen (partial serial archives)
- An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
- Silver Screen (partial serial archives)
- Behind the Screen (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Samuel Goldwyn
- Filmbulletin (in German) (partial serial archives)
- Talking Screen (full serial archives)
- Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (partial serial archives)
- The Cradle of the Deep (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929), by Joan Lowell, illust. by Kurt Wiese (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Salt Water Taffy, or, Twenty Thousand Leagues Away From the Sea: The Almost Incredible Autobiography of Capt. Ezra Triplett's Seafaring Daughter (credited on the title page to the book's main character; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929), by Corey Ford, illust. by Maurice Charbonnet Kellerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Thrilling Events, Life of Henry Starr: Famous Cherokee Indian Outlaw Narrates His Many Adventures From Boyhood to Date (1914), by Henry Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
- Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Cynthia Willett and Julie A. Willett (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
- The Case of Mrs. Clive, Submitted to the Publick (London: Printed for B. Dod, 1744), by Kitty Clive (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Campaign for Economic Democracy (in 2 parts; Washington: Heritage Foundation, 1980-1981), by William T. Poole
- Interpreters (new edition, revised; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1920), by Carl Van Vechten (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Records of a Girlhood (second edition; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1880), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Records of a Girlhood (second edition; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1883), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Records of Later Life (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1882), by Fanny Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
- Records of Later Life (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1882), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
- From Friend to Friend (London: J. Murray, 1919), by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, ed. by Emily Ritchie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Year of Consolation (2 volumes; London: E. Moxon, 1847), by Fanny Kemble
- Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)
- Journal of a Residence in America (Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1835), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1891), by Fanny Kemble (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters (2 volumes; London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890), by Fanny Kemble
- Records of a Girlhood (second edition; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1880), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Records of a Girlhood (second edition; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1883), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble (London: Macmillan and co., 1902), by Edward FitzGerald, ed. by William Aldis Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 (New York: Harper and brothers, 1863), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839, by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
- All Our Lives: Alice Duer Miller (New York: Coward-McCann, c1945), by Henry Wise Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- Elizabeth Robins (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #22; 1994), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
- Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Incomparable Siddons (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1909), by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons
- Mape: The World of Illusion (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by André Maurois, trans. by Eric Sutton (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Actors- The Paradox of Acting: Translated With Annotations From Diderot's "Paradoxe sur le Comédien" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Walter Herries Pollock, contrib. by Henry Irving (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
- Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
- Stage-Land (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1906), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Bernard Partridge (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
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