Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Timeline of Modjeska's Life and Career
1. Debut
2. The Making of a Polish Actress
3. Warsaw's State of the Stars
4. A Colonial Party and the California Dream
5. On the American Road
6. The Roles of Madame Modjeska
7. The Polish Modjeska
8. Farewell Tour
Epilogue: Finding Modjeska Today
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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The life and times of Helena Modjeska

About the Author

Beth Holmgren is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Theater Studies at Duke University. She is author of Women's Works in Stalin's Time (IUP, 1993), editor (with Helena Goscilo) of Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture and Russia • Women • Culture (IUP, 1996), and translator and editor (with Helena Goscilo) of The Keys to Happiness by Anastasya Verbitskaya (IUP, 1999).

Reviews

"Starring Madame Modjeska is a tour de force... Modjeska's story is conveyed in clear, vivid, witty prose." Bozena Shallcross, University of Chicago "Starring Madame Modjeska offers insight into not only the prodigious life of a captivating actress who crafted her own unique romantic acting style as well as her public persona; it also provides a colorful portrait of the nineteenth-century theatre." - Cosmopolitan Review