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Helen Mae Bousky Brooks, April 2, 1932 - August 9, 2024
No full textHelen Mae Bousky Brooks passed away peacefully on August 9, 2024 at the age of 92. She was buried next to her husband at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto, CA. Helen taught at Stanford University for over 30 years
Actresses, Gender and the Eighteenth-Century Stage : Playing Women
No full textOver the course of the eighteenth century notions of what it meant to be a woman changed radically. Through examining the work of actresses including Anne Oldfield, Peg Woffington, Dora Jordan, and Sarah Siddons, Helen Brooks reveals how female performers both responded, and contributed to, these changes. Ranging from the masculine rhetorical skill of Oldfield and the androgynous cross-dressing of Woffington in the first half of the century, as well as the performances of 'self' cultivated by Jordan and Siddons at the end, this book reveals how actresses reacted to the cultural shift from the one to two-sex body, and from a protean to a Romantic model of self, by developing new ways of 'playing women'. Consistent throughout the century however was the economic motivation behind these gendered performances: as Brooks emphasizes, actresses were ambitious entrepreneurs who, unlike other professional women, succeeded because, rather than in spite of, their gender
Letter from Gladys Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, June 28, 1947
No full text1 leaf (double-sided)Letter from Gladys Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, June 28, 194
Letter from Gladys Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, June 28, 1947
No full text1 leaf (double-sided)Letter from Gladys Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, June 28, 194
Letter from Van Wych Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, August 2, 1951
No full text1 leaf (double-sided)Letter from Van Wych Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, August 2, 195
Letter from Van Wyck Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, November 16, 1947
No full text1 leaf (single sided)Letter from Van Wyck Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, November 16, 194
Letter from Van Wyck Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, November 16, 1947
No full text1 leaf (single sided)Letter from Van Wyck Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, November 16, 194
Letter from Van Wych Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, August 2, 1951
No full text1 leaf (double-sided)Letter from Van Wych Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, August 2, 195
Letter from Van Wyck Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, July 31, 1951
No full text1 leaf (double-sided)Letter from Van Wyck Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, July 31, 195
Letter from Van Wyck Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, November 5, 1949
No full text1 leaf (single sided)Letter from Van Wyck Brooks to Helen Farr Sloan, November 5, 194
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