Carrying All before Her

Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Inheriting Greatness: Susanna Mountfort Verbruggen and Anne Oldfield
2 Pregnant Sensibility: Susannah Cibber and George Anne Bellamy
3 Conceiving Genius: Sarah Siddons
4 Prolific Muse: Dorothy Jordan
Conclusion: Celebrity Pregnancy, Then and Now
Appendix: Birth and Christening Dates
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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• Estudos literários: peças e dramaturgos
• Estudos teatrais
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• O feminismo e teoria feminista

Sarah Siddons; Dorothy Jordan; Susanna Mountfort Verbruggen; Anne Oldfield; Susannah Cibber; George Anne Bellamy; women's studies; theater and performance studies; theatre studies; celebrity studies; literary studies; eighteenth-century studies; the long eighteenth century; eighteenth-century Britain; eighteenth-century London; theatre history; theater and performance; patent theatres; celebrity culture; celebrity and performance; celebrity and pregnancy; women; motherhood; pregnancy; celebrity stage actresses; female actresses