Limelight: Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography

by Katja Lee

At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project. In Limelight, Katja Lee examines the memoirs of famous Canadian women like L. M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, the Dionne Quintuplets, Margaret Trudeau, and Shania Twain to trace the rise of celebrity autobiography in Canada and the role gender has played in the rise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771124296
• ISBN13: 9781771124294
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 8.8"