I enjoyed the read and would recommend it to anyone interested in celebrity, silent movies and popular culture. Between the early 18th century and the 1950s, hundreds of English and American artists, authors, politicians, criminals, courtesans, nurses and non-entities strove to achieve this peculiar kind of fame, or found themselves inadvertently catapulted into it. And soon after that, perhaps because Mérode had already publicly displayed every other inch of her body – on stage, in sculpture and through photographs – a peculiar fixation gripped the media: what did her ears look like? I read a fair few history books and often find them to either be so dry they are difficult to access or written as if they are aimed at kids but this one is the perfect middle ground- it's still intelligent and fascinating but it's written with a sense of humour that make it far easier to read. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers.

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It’s hard to resist an author who titles one of his chapters “The Fandom Menace”, or who describes Mick Jagger as a “narrow-hipped, geriatric strut machine”, Lord Byron as that “talented, pouty shag merchant with the lustrous hair”, or Gertrude Stein as “the modernist Miley Cyrus, minus the twerking” (trust me, it kind of makes sense). Who could fail to root for three-year-old Isabella Rudkin, the prodigy child harpist who upstaged Franz Liszt on his 1824 tour of Britain? We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.

Great Britain, Bantam Press (a division of Random House), ISBN 978-0-593-04804-7, Pub date 5 November 2001, Hardcover; ISBN 978-0-552-99945-8, Pub date 1 September 2002, Paperback.

Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site.He does an anthropological social study focusing on the roots of celebrity and how circumstance met opportunity to make people become revered and celebrated.

This is a lively look at history's great and gawped at - and how they reshaped the world around them. Dead Famous is a fascinating read and what I enjoyed most about it was the mix of people I knew and those who I had never heard of before. Dead Famous (2001) is a comedy/ whodunit novel by Ben Elton in which ratings for a reality TV show, very similar to Big Brother, rocket when a housemate is murdered. Meet the Georgian literary forger William-Henry Ireland, who claimed to have discovered a trunkful of Shakespearean manuscripts, complete with a new play, Vortigern and Rowena.Three more Hungry Cities novels followed, and Philip’s latest project are the Fever Crumb books, prequels set centuries before the events of Mortal Engines. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy; or the cheetah-owning, coffin-sleeping, one-legged French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who launched a violent feud with her former best friend; or Edmund Kean, the dazzling Shakespearean actor whose monstrous ego and terrible alcoholism saw him nearly murdered by his own audience - the list of stars whose careers burned bright before the Age of Television is extensive and thrillingly varied. She is famous for having terrible taste in husbands, rotting away in Elizabeth I's prison and totally losing her head – on the chopping block. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling and outraging us for much longer than we might realise.