Rediscovering the actress through portraiture
“The author was in fact setting out to research the forgotten iconic photographer, H. Walter Barnett. She visited the Victoria & Albert Museum in London where she came across this particularly intriguing photograph of Bernhardt taken by Barnett when Bernhardt was much older, and her career had by then already spanned over fifty years.” Valerie Green reviews Unequivocal Magic: Sarah Bernhardt and the Journey of a Portrait, by Alex Bertram (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2026) $42.99 / 9781771127189