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Star actresses and dancers were among the most publicly visible, celebrated, and often polarizing female public figures in the early United States. This book examines the careers and celebrity of the women and girls from Europe and America whose fame drove the growth and transformation of theater between 1790 and 1850 from the Atlantic seaboard to the trans-Appalachian West.

Theater --- Theater and society --- Women in the theater --- History --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Social status --- Social aspects