My double life
Subtitle: the memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
By: Sarah Bernhardt ; translated by Victoria Tietze Larson.
Contributors: Tietze Larson, Victoria, 1954-
Series: SUNY series, women writers in translation
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923.; Actors -- France -- Biography.
Description: My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars. Bernhardt's memoirs are composed with a novelist's (or actress's) sense of artistry and suspense that leaves no doubt of the charisma for which she was famed in her "double life," both on- and offstage.

Yet at the same time as this book very consciously contributes to the crafting of her image, it also illuminates a whole era: not only the world of theater, but also the worlds of women, politics, society, Europe and America, and, indeed, of history making itself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-332) and index.