Michael York, distinguished film actor, author: “What an extraordinary life!”
Mark Twain: ”A magnificent spectacle dazzled my vision–the whole constellation of the Great Bare came flaming out of the heavens.”
Anne Richards, former Texas governor: “Texas produced the first American sex symbol–the Naked Lady.”
U.S. News & World Report: “The photos that propelled Adah Menken to fame foreshadow the Vanity Fair cover that propelled a naked, pregnant Demi Moore to new levels of celebrity.”
Baron Lionel de Rothschild: “The inspired Deborah of her people.”
Encyclopedia Britannica: “Adah was strikingly beautiful . . . a talented poet who received encouragement from Walt Whitman [and] numbered such literary men as Mark Twain, Bret Harte and Longfellow among her admirers.”
Life magazine: “Adah was the premier sight of the West, the Rockies a very poor second.”
American Jewish Historical Society (website): “Today’s Hollywood celebrities have nothing on the glamorous, scandalous, tragic and paradoxical Adah Isaacs Menken.”
Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America (museum show): “Adah Isaacs Menken’s extraordinary beauty, her flamboyant style of acting and her daring display of her shapely figure made her the sensation of the Victorian Age.”
A and E’s Biography.com: “She was involved in many scandalous alliances in and out of marriage.”
NY Post : “She is so lovely she numbs the mind and the senses reel.”
Billy Rose: “A lollapalooza who rates with Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, and other standouts in the cuddle-up sweepstakes.”
Fulton Oursler, Sr., author of The Greatest Story Ever Told: “She was Venus, the Goddess of Love made human.”
Arthur Conan Doyle: “To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. She eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.”
Napoleon Sarony, the first celebrity photographer: “Adah Menken was the most remarkable mingling of angel and devil.”
John Oxenford, critic for the London Times: “a wonderful vigor and spirit, a magnificent figure.”
Charles Dickens: “I shall take great pleasure in accepting your dedication to Infelicia.”
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer: “Miss Adah Isaacs Menken drove all the people crazy [and] carried away with her millions of dollars.”
Algernon Swinburne: “This is she . . . the world’s delight.”
Mark Twain: ”A magnificent spectacle dazzled my vision–the whole constellation of the Great Bare came flaming out of the heavens.”
Anne Richards, former Texas governor: “Texas produced the first American sex symbol–the Naked Lady.”
U.S. News & World Report: “The photos that propelled Adah Menken to fame foreshadow the Vanity Fair cover that propelled a naked, pregnant Demi Moore to new levels of celebrity.”
Baron Lionel de Rothschild: “The inspired Deborah of her people.”
Encyclopedia Britannica: “Adah was strikingly beautiful . . . a talented poet who received encouragement from Walt Whitman [and] numbered such literary men as Mark Twain, Bret Harte and Longfellow among her admirers.”
Life magazine: “Adah was the premier sight of the West, the Rockies a very poor second.”
American Jewish Historical Society (website): “Today’s Hollywood celebrities have nothing on the glamorous, scandalous, tragic and paradoxical Adah Isaacs Menken.”
Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America (museum show): “Adah Isaacs Menken’s extraordinary beauty, her flamboyant style of acting and her daring display of her shapely figure made her the sensation of the Victorian Age.”
A and E’s Biography.com: “She was involved in many scandalous alliances in and out of marriage.”
NY Post : “She is so lovely she numbs the mind and the senses reel.”
Billy Rose: “A lollapalooza who rates with Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, and other standouts in the cuddle-up sweepstakes.”
Fulton Oursler, Sr., author of The Greatest Story Ever Told: “She was Venus, the Goddess of Love made human.”
Arthur Conan Doyle: “To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. She eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.”
Napoleon Sarony, the first celebrity photographer: “Adah Menken was the most remarkable mingling of angel and devil.”
John Oxenford, critic for the London Times: “a wonderful vigor and spirit, a magnificent figure.”
Charles Dickens: “I shall take great pleasure in accepting your dedication to Infelicia.”
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer: “Miss Adah Isaacs Menken drove all the people crazy [and] carried away with her millions of dollars.”
Algernon Swinburne: “This is she . . . the world’s delight.”
