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Actresses -- 19th century

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• Actresses
• 19th century

• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple foprmats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust

• 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 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Filmbulletin (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Talking Screen (full serial archives)
• Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (partial serial archives)

• 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 and PDF with commentary at umn.edu)

• Fact Into Figure: Typology in Carlyle, Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Herbert L. Sussman (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Nietzsche and Art (London: Constable and Co., 1911), by Anthony M. Ludovici
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated HTML at anthonymludovici.com
• Nietzsche and Art (Boston: J. W. Luce and Co., 1912), by Anthony M. Ludovici (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Michael Bright
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier (c2008), by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• The First Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1893) (page images at CMU)
• Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's magazine (New York: A. Dowling, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism (Hartford: T. J. Spencer, 1891), by T. J. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

• Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (multiple editions)
• An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900), ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman (HTML at Bartleby)
• An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1900), by Edwin Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Masque of Poets: Including Guy Vernon, a Novelette in Verse, ed. by George Parsons Lathrop (page images at MOA)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Emily Dickinson, contrib. by Martha Dickinson Bianchi (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1915), by Emily Dickinson, contrib. by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Ladies' Vase of Wild Flowers: A Collection of Gems From the Best Authors (Auburn, MA: J. M. Alden, 1850), ed. by Miss Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern Poems, ed. by Charles W. Kent (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Romantic Antiquarianism (2014), ed. by Noah Heringman and Crystal B. Lake (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by William Craft Brumfield (HTML at UC Press)

• The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, Their Arrangement and Construction (third edition; London: The Society For Improving The Condition Of The Labouring Classes, ca. 1853), by Henry Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition (based on first and second editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994), by Hermann Muthesius, ed. by Stanford Anderson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Joshua A. Fogel (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Rebecca N. Mitchell (PDF at Ohio State)

• Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era (second edition; Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2003), by Hollis Clayson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• L'Art Ottoman: Les Peintres de Turquie (reprint of 1910 original, in French; Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, 1988), by Adolphe Thalasso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art, and Thought, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

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