![]() Vanderbilt often hosted tableaux vivants with young, unmarried women of high society performing in various roles (Chapman 1992). These kinds of performances were often used as a vehicle for local fund-raising. Unlike Dickens, Bartlett’s waxworks were fitted with clockworks inside so that they could move and “go through the same motions they did when living.” Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), the author of Little Women, frequently participated in tableaux vivants, with Bartlett as her stage manager (Chapman 1992). Enriched with more characters, real and fictitious, Bartlett’s book is essentially a guidebook for staging amateur performances with animated pantomimes, also known as tableaux vivants. Jarley’s Far-Famed Collection of Waxworks. In 1873, George Bradford Bartlett (1832-1896), an American from Massachusetts, published Mrs. Jarley was the proprietor of a collection of still wax figures which she displayed on a stage protected by a cord. Inspired by Madame Tussaud’s famous wax models, Dickens’s Mrs. ![]() Jarley is a minor character in the plot, her story gained much popularity in British and American amateur theater and was performed widely at private parties in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Jarley’s Waxworks forms part of Charles Dickens’s novel The Old Curiosity Shop, published in 1841. Jarley’s Waxworks and a Jolly Jumble of Jests, Christmas 1903 Posted: J| Author: Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan | Filed under: Archaeology, Archival Research, Biography, Classics, History of Archaeology | Tags: Edith Hall, Fritz Darrow, Gorham Stevens, Harold Fowler, Katherine Welsh, Lacey Caskey, Theodore W.
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