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Bibliographic Information
Sentilles, Renee M. Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Type: Book ; Genre: biography
Abstract
A biography of Adah Isaacs Menken.
People Mentioned in this Work
- Arnold, George [pages: 142]
- A regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- Clapp, Henry Jr. [pages: 141-142]
- Sentilles describes him as "a living illustration of the connection between American bohemianism and middle-class idealism."
- Clare, Ada [pages: 142-43]
- A regular in the bohemian circle. Clare was one of two women who were fully accepted into the male bohemian circle. Ada Clare formed a frienship with Adah Menken around 1860.
- Danforth, Jennie [pages: 142]
- A regular at Pfaff's.
- Deland, Annie [pages: 142]
- A regular at Pfaff's.
- Du Solle, John Stephenson Colonel [pages: 142]
- A regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- Fox, Mary Hewins [pages: 142]
- A regular at Pfaff's.
- Gay, Getty [pages: 142]
- A regular at Pfaff's.
- Gayler, Charles [pages: 142]
- A regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- House, Edward Howard [pages: 142]
- A regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- Menken, Adah Isaacs
- Neill, Harry [pages: 142]
- A regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- North, William [pages: 142]
- A regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- O'Brien, Fitz-James [pages: 142]
- A regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's. O'Brien died of tetanus during the Civil War.
- Ottarson, Franklin J. [pages: 142]
- A regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- Saturday Press, The [pages: 142]
- Sentilles mentions Clapp's creation of the publication and its numerous contributors.
- Shaw, Dora [pages: 142]
- A regular at Pfaff's.
- Stedman, Edmund Clarence [pages: 142]
- A regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- Stoddard, Elizabeth Barstow [pages: 143]
- One of only two women to be fully accepted into the bohemian circle.
- Stoddard, Richard Henry [pages: 142]
- A regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- Taylor, Bayard [pages: 141, 142]
- Sentilles quotes Taylor's description of Pfaff's as a place where "mild potations of beer and the dreamy breath of cigars delayed the nervous fidgety, clattering-footed American hours." Taylor was a regular in the bohemian circle.
- Thomson, Mortimer [pages: 142]
- Mortimer is described as a regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- Twain, Mark [pages: 193]
- Sentilles notes that Twain compared Pfaff's to the San Francisco bohemians who called themselves "companions of the jug."
- Ward, Artemus [pages: 142]
- Ward was a regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- Whitman, Walt [pages: 142]
- Whitman was a regular visitor to Pfaff's whose status as an object of admiration kept him from truly being a member of the bohemian circle.
- Wilkins, Edward G. P. [pages: 142]
- Wilkins is listed as a regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
- Winter, William [pages: 142, 223-24]
- A regular in the bohemian circle who "had significant impact on the reading culture of New York and therefore around the nation."
Winter's harsh critique of Menken's performance in Mazeppa is attributed to her earlier friendship with Whitman, who Winter strongly disliked. - Wood, Frank [pages: 142]
- A regular in the bohemian circle at Pfaff's.
