Victorian Touring Actresses by Janice Norwood;

Author:Janice Norwood;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781526133342
Publisher: Manchester University Press

In the US the commodification of women's bodies was hastened by the leg shows heralded by The Black Crook (Niblo's Gardens, 1866) and the burlesque shows of Thompson, Weathersby and the like (Dudden, 1994: 170). They seemed to license extended scrutiny of every aspect of the woman's physical form, though not all critiques were as flattering as this appreciation in a Cincinnati paper:

A complexion of opaline clearness and opaline warmth of color; arms roundly tapering from shoulder to wrist, with the softest of dimples at either elbow; a bosom broad and full, swelling in the most voluptuous curves of dainty roundness; lower limbs exquisitely proportioned, with the same wonderful tapering by just degrees from broad, full hip to snowy ankle; a waist as naturally graceful and supple as that of the famous broken-armed Venus in the Vatican; and feet delicately arched with the Oriental grace of those girls of Palestine, who leave but an airy imprint of heel and toe on the brown sand—all of this exquisite modelling of form distinguishes Miss Weathersby as one of the lovliest [sic] women that ever appeared on an American stage.62

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