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Title The New woman and her sisters : feminism and theatre, 1850-1914 / edited by Vivien Gardner and Susan Rutherford.

Imprint Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1992.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  792.082 N42    ---  Available
Description xxi, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-238).
Contents The New Woman and the new life / Jill Davis -- The Golden Girl / Lesley Ferris -- Princess Hamlet / Jill Edmonds -- Irrational dress / J. S. Bratton -- The voice of freedom : images of the prima donna / Susan Rutherford -- Yvette Guilbert : La femme moderne on the British stage / Geraldine Harris -- Female daredevils / Helen Day -- The adventuress : Lady Audley's secret as novel, play and film / Zoe Aldrich -- Drama as a trade : Cicely Hamilton's Diana of Dobson's / Sheila Stowell --Typewriters enchained : the work of Elizabeth Baker / Linda Fitzimmons --The "New Woman" at Manchester's Gaiety Theatre / Elaine Aston --Entertaining ideas : Edy Craig and the Pioneer Players / Christine Dymkowski.
Subject Feminism and theater -- Great Britain.
Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Added Author Gardner, Vivien.
Rutherford, Susan.
ISBN 0472102656 (cloth : alk. paper)
0472081683 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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