Eliza! Eliza!: A Biography of Eliza Winstanley 1818 - 1882.
by Irvine, Nance
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0949910724
- ISBN 13
- 9780949910721
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Canberra: Mulini Press, 1997. Paperback large wide octavo, good plus condition, card cover, black & white drawings (some full-page), black & white author photo rear cover, spine slightly faded, last page bound upside down, minor edgewear, faint autograph (author's written dedication). 52 pp. Nancy Irvine records the fascinating story of Eliza Winstanley, one of the earliest Australian actresses and writers. Born in England and arriving in Sydney in 1833 she became an actress on the stage of the Royal Theatre. She achieved much success in the theatres of Sydney, Hobart and Melbourne, and then went overseas to London and New York. She gave up the stage in middle life and became the most successful editor of the family magazine 'Bow Bells', an English weekly. She wrote over 30 serials and novels some with an Australian background and story. Eliza returned to Australia about 1879 and died in Sydney in 1882.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23918
- Title
- Eliza! Eliza!: A Biography of Eliza Winstanley 1818 - 1882.
- Author
- Irvine, Nance
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0949910724
- ISBN 13
- 9780949910721
- Publisher
- Mulini Press
- Place of Publication
- Canberra
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- australian biography, australian history, performing arts, actresses, literature, novelists, autograph
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY;
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