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Wise Children 1991

By Angela Carter

  • Older women, Family, Open Library Staff Picks, Aged women

In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora -- unacknowledged the daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day -- were known as the Lucky Chances, with private lives as colorful and erratic as their careers.

Older womenFamilyOpen Library Staff PicksAged womenFictionTwinsSistersIllegitimate childrenWomen entertainersFamiliesBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)London (england), fiction

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