Patricia Marks, now retired, taught literature and composition at Valdosta State University for 30 years. In 1996, she was named Regents Distinguished Professor and in 2001 was awarded the Governor’s Award in Humanities. She is the author of four other books, including The ’Arry Ballads (2006) and lives with her husband in Valdosta, Georgia. She is a Deacon at Christ Episcopal Church.

“thoughtful, thorough periodical scholarship”—Victorian Periodicals Review.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction      1. Lady Liberty Sets Sail      2. Sarah and the Four Hundred      3. “Bust-on” Beans and Other Delicacies      4. “Ehue, Jaques! How frail we are!”: Bernhardt and the Sympathetic Barbarians    5. “We are hardly good colonists”: Bernhardt’s Southern Odyssey      6. “We be men of little wit”: Audiences in the Midwest      7. Home, Sweet Home      Appendix I. Plays Performed in the United States (1880–1881)      Appendix II. Bernhardt’s Traveling Art Show      Appendix III. Performance Chronology      Notes      Bibliography      Index

Patricia Marks, now retired, taught literature and composition at Valdosta State University for 30 years. In 1996, she was named Regents Distinguished Professor and in 2001 was awarded the Governor’s Award in Humanities. She is the author of four other books, including The ’Arry Ballads (2006) and lives with her husband in Valdosta, Georgia. She is a Deacon at Christ Episcopal Church.

“thoughtful, thorough periodical scholarship”—Victorian Periodicals Review.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction      1. Lady Liberty Sets Sail      2. Sarah and the Four Hundred      3. “Bust-on” Beans and Other Delicacies      4. “Ehue, Jaques! How frail we are!”: Bernhardt and the Sympathetic Barbarians    5. “We are hardly good colonists”: Bernhardt’s Southern Odyssey      6. “We be men of little wit”: Audiences in the Midwest      7. Home, Sweet Home      Appendix I. Plays Performed in the United States (1880–1881)      Appendix II. Bernhardt’s Traveling Art Show      Appendix III. Performance Chronology      Notes      Bibliography      Index

Patricia Marks, now retired, taught literature and composition at Valdosta State University for 30 years. In 1996, she was named Regents Distinguished Professor and in 2001 was awarded the Governor’s Award in Humanities. She is the author of four other books, including The ’Arry Ballads (2006) and lives with her husband in Valdosta, Georgia. She is a Deacon at Christ Episcopal Church.

“thoughtful, thorough periodical scholarship”—Victorian Periodicals Review.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction      1. Lady Liberty Sets Sail      2. Sarah and the Four Hundred      3. “Bust-on” Beans and Other Delicacies      4. “Ehue, Jaques! How frail we are!”: Bernhardt and the Sympathetic Barbarians    5. “We are hardly good colonists”: Bernhardt’s Southern Odyssey      6. “We be men of little wit”: Audiences in the Midwest      7. Home, Sweet Home      Appendix I. Plays Performed in the United States (1880–1881)      Appendix II. Bernhardt’s Traveling Art Show      Appendix III. Performance Chronology      Notes      Bibliography      Index