#  Sarah Bernhardt’s Friend -- talk by Sharon Marcus 

 



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 **November 28, 2017** 

 05:00PM - 05:00PM EST 

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 **Barker Center Room 133 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge**  



 

 



 

 Friendship is a notoriously slippery category. The word is easy to use, hard to define; indeed, it may be so easy to use *because* it is so hard to define. Especially vexed is the relationship of friendship to the social bonds formed by sex, marriage, and kinship. “Sarah Bernhardt’s Friend” analyzes how late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century journalists represented the relationship between actor Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) and painter Louise Abbéma (1853-1927), arguing that they used the the words “amie” and “friend” to simultaneously  communicate and conceal knowledge of lesbian sexuality.

 Sharon Marcus is spending this year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, having just finished a term as dean of humanities at Columbia University, where she is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature.



 

 



 

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