I, Madame Tussaud by Martin, Sylvia - 1957

New York: Harper & Brothers. Good in Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 370 pages. Shelf worn boards; original dust jacket with chips, stains and tears. Not price clipped, now in a removable archival cover. Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud; née Grosholtz; (1761 – 1850) was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the (now world famous) wax museum she founded in London. I, Madame Tussaud is "A novel cast in the form of an autobiography reveals the life of Marie Tussaud and highlights also the fashionable France of the revolutionary period and Marie's rise within it, first under the tutelage of her Uncle Philip, whose portraits in wax gained him personal power and fame. Her subsequent, unhappy marriage, the flight to England and dedication to a craft, are all expertly detailed to make an important 18th century figure stand out in high relief. Conversation worthy." Kirkus Review, 1957. ; 8vo .