My Life and Some Letters

By Beatrice Stella Campbell, Patrick Campbell, Mrs Patrick Campbell

Book Overview

My Life and Some Letters is a memoir written by Mrs. Patrick Campbell, a British stage actress and theatrical producer. The book is a collection of her personal experiences, reflections, and correspondence with notable figures of her time, including George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Winston Churchill. Mrs. Campbell recounts her early life and career, her rise to fame as a leading lady in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and her personal and professional relationships with other actors and actresses. She also discusses her marriages, her struggles with addiction and mental health issues, and her eventual retirement from the stage. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of British theater during the turn of the century and the life of one of its most celebrated performers.1922. With illustrations. The memoirs of Mrs. Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Cornwallis-West). From Chapter One: My father and my mother, Maria Luigia Giovanna Romanini, fell helplessly in love at their first meeting: my mother could not speak a word of English, and my father not a word of Italian. He was twenty-one, she was seventeen. The marriage caused great excitement in Bombay at the time, my father being the heir of one of the richest Anglo-Indians, my mother the daughter of an Italian political exile. They had six children, three born in India, my two brothers and myself in London. My father, it seems, managed to get through two large fortunes; he was careless with money, exceptionally generous, delighting in business enterprise and speculation.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1162768029
• ISBN13: 9781162768021
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"