One Volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.
“Rachel, by Nina H. Kennard, is an interesting sketch of the famous woman whose passion and genius won for her an almost unrivalled fame as an actress. The story of Rachel’s career is of the most brilliant success in art and of the most pathetic failure in character. Her faults, many and grievous, are overlooked in this volume, and the better aspects of her nature and history are recorded.”—Hartford Courant.
“The book is well planned, has been carefully constructed, and is pleasantly written.”—The Critic.
“The life of Mlle. Élisa Rachel Félix has never been adequately told, and the appearance of her biography in the ‘Famous Women Series’ of Messrs. Roberts Brothers will be welcomed.… Yet we must be glad the book is written, and welcome it to a place among the minor biographies; and because there is nothing else so good, the volume is indispensable to library and study.”—Boston Evening Traveller.
“Another life of the great actress Rachel has been written. It forms part of the ‘Famous Women Series,’ which that firm is now bringing out, and which already includes eleven volumes. Mrs. Kennard deals with her subject much more amiably than one or two of the other biographers have done. She has none of those vindictive feelings which are so obvious in Madame B.’s narrative of the great tragedienne. On the contrary, she wants to be fair, and she probably is as fair as the materials which came into her possession enabled her to be. The endeavor has been made to show us Rachel as she really was, by relying to a great extent upon her letters.… A good many stories that we are familiar with are repeated, and some are contradicted. From first to last, however, the sympathy of the author is ardent, whether she recounts the misery of Rachel’s childhood, or the splendid altitude to which she climbed when her name echoed through the world and the great ones of the earth vied in doing her homage. On this account Mrs. Kennard’s book is a welcome addition to the pre-existing biographies of one of the greatest actresses the world ever saw.”—N.Y. Evening Telegram.
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