Adieu, madame
Terry Castle: Sarah Bernhardt, 4 November 2010
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
by Robert Gottlieb.
Yale, 233 pp., £18.99, October 2010,978 0 300 14127 6 Show More
by Robert Gottlieb.
Yale, 233 pp., £18.99, October 2010,
“... degree.’ If you say so, Lorenzo – she was 63 at the time. Ordinarily cool and spinsterish, Willa Cather lights up like a Christmas tree in the Divine One’s presence: Bernhardt’s ‘bursts of passion blind one by their vividness … It is like lightning, gone before you see enough of it, and indescribable in its brilliancy.’ The actress’s ... ”