Kate Berridge
Autor(a) de Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax
About the Author
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Berridge, Kate
- Data de nascimento
- 20th Century
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Organizações
- Spectator (contributor)
Sunday Telegraph (contributor)
Vogue (contributor)
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Resenhas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 128
- Popularidade
- #157,245
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 12
- Idiomas
- 1
Most of what people know of the early part of Marie Grosholtz’s (Madame Tussaud’s) life came from her own autobiography. This author tries to verify (but has a hard time doing so) much of what Marie wrote about her own life. It seems that there may have been a lot of exaggeration, particularly during the French Revolution, when she created wax figures out of decapitated heads during the “Terror”. It was easier to verify her life (as she became more well-known) once she moved to England.
The book was ok, but a few too many parts of it were kind of dry reading. All I knew about her was from Michelle Moran’s book, but her book pretty much ended when Marie moved to England. I hadn’t realized she had done as much travelling as she had – to promote her show and her wax models. She really does seem to have had a good head for business, but much of her money was taken by a bad deal with the man she went into business with in England (until she untangled herself from him) and her dud of a husband in France.… (mais)