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Author : Beatrice Harraden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Lady Geraldine's Speech written by Beatrice Harraden and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lady Geraldine's Courtship written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cicely Hamilton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408176602
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays written by Cicely Hamilton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays is an anthology of eight exciting pieces written for and by members of the Actresses Franchise League from 1909-13. Immediately playable, they offer strong, varied roles for female casts, while also providing invaluable source material to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Featuring 'How The Vote Was Won' which remains one of the most popular and well known suffrage plays, the volume also includes seven shorter works: 'Lady Geraldine's Speech' (1909), a fantastic, fun piece for actresses. Lady Geraldine hasn't thought through the Suffrage cause and, on a visit to an old school friend meets some charismatic, successful and intelligent women who soon enlighten and encourage her on to the right path! 'Pot and Kettle' (1909), a comic piece in which a young woman returns to her family in great distress having assaulted a suffragette who was sitting near her at a Anti-Suffragist meeting. 'Miss Appleyard's Awakening' about an anti-suffrage campaigner who finds herself in the home of a sympathizer but ends up inadvertently drawing her hostesses' attention to the contradictions in her arguments 'Her Vote' by the actor and playwright Henry Esmond which provides an interesting male viewpoint on the movement, criticizing the young suffragist for wanting to be part of a movement about which she seems to understand little. 'The Anti-Suffragist or The Other Side', a charming, clever monologue about a sheltered young woman who finds herself increasingly involved with her local Anti-Suffrage society and increasingly puzzled by what she learns there. 'The Mother's Meeting', an entertaining monologue that uses a working class character to expose the inconsistencies in the Anti-Suffrage arguments. 'Tradition' was first performed at a matinee for the Woman Suffrage Party held at the Berkeley Theatre in New York City on Saturday 24 January 1913. The plays featured articulate the arguments of the Suffrage Movement through a variety of styles, both comic and serious, and perfectly illustrate the use of drama as a medium for social change and entertainment. Together with illustrations and an introduction charting the history of the Actresses Franchise League and exploring the context and provenance of the plays, this is an excellent resource for both study and performance.
Author : Julie Holledge
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 1405525738
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Innocent Flowers written by Julie Holledge and published by Virago. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edwardian actress, glamorous and privileged, was the sex symbol of her time. Yet her life was a paradox: off stage she could marry, divorce and take lovers with impugnity; on stage she had to play dutiful wives or daughters or 'scarlet women'. Thousands of these spirited women set out to change the conventional roles they played - and to change the world. Some of them were famous - Athene Seyler, Kitty Marion, Elizabeth Robins, Edy Craig, many others unknown. Managing their own companies, they put on hundreds of plays all over the country - many on taboo subjects such as divorce, sex, venereal disease, prostitution - by little known playwrights as well as established dramatists like Shaw, Ibsen, Barrie. They took the establishment theatre by storm; and they made their mark on the political stage too, forming the Actresses' Franchise League and joining the battle for the vote. Innocent Flowers tells the story of these astonishing women (and includes some of their plays). By tracing their lives and loves, Julie Holledge has rediscovered an inspiring period in the history of women and the theatre.
Author : Claire Cochrane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104011461X
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance written by Claire Cochrane and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance provides a broad range of perspectives on the multiple models and examples of theatre, artists, enthusiasts, enablers, and audiences that emerged over this formative 100-year period. This first volume covers the first half of the century, constructing an equitable and inclusive history that is more representative of the nation's lived experience than the traditional narratives of British theatre. Its approach is intra-national – weaving together the theatres and communities of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The essays are organised thematically arranged into sections that address nation, power, and identity; fixity and mobility; bodies in performance; the materiality of theatre and communities of theatre. This approach highlights the synergies, convergences, and divergences of the theatre landscape in Britain during this period, giving a sense of the sheer variety of performance that was taking place at any given moment in time. This is a fascinating and indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, postgraduate researchers, and scholars across theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and twentieth-century history.
Author : Naomi Paxton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152611481X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Stage rights! written by Naomi Paxton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage rights! explores the work and legacy of the first feminist political theatre group of the twentieth century, the Actresses' Franchise League. Formed in 1908 to support the suffrage movement through theatre, the League and its membership opened up new roles for women on stage and off, challenged stereotypes of suffragists and actresses, created new work inspired by the movement and was an integral part of the performative propaganda of the campaign. Introducing new archival material to both suffrage and theatre histories, this book is the first to focus in detail on the Actresses' Franchise League, its membership and its work. The volume is formulated as a historiographically innovative critical biography of the organisation over the fifty years of its activities, and invites a total reassessment of the League within the accepted narratives of the development of political theatre in the UK.
Author : Lorna Sage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521668132
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (681 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English written by Lorna Sage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.
Author : June Hannam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000672840
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Suffrage and Women's Writing written by June Hannam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines different types of women’s creative writing in support of the demand for the parliamentary vote, including autobiographies, memoirs, letters, diaries, novels, and drama. The women’s suffrage movement became far more visible in the Edwardian period. Large demonstrations and militant actions such as destruction of property were widely reported in the press and reached a wide audience. Eager to get their message across, suffrage campaigners not only took collective action but also used women’s creative talents—whether as artists, musicians, or writers—to win hearts and minds for the cause. Through a close reading of contemporary texts, the chapters in this book reveal the diverse nature of the suffrage movement and its ideas, and the complex relationship between the personal and the political. The contributors also highlight the significance of women’s writing as a means to advance the suffrage cause and as a key element of suffrage propaganda. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.
Author : Maggie Barbara Gale
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719057137
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Women, Theatre and Performance written by Maggie Barbara Gale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection addresses key questions in women's theatre history and retrieves a number of previously "hidden" histories of women performers. The essays range across the past 300 years--topics covered include Susanna Centlivre and the notion of intertheatricality; gender and theatrical space; the repositioning of women performers such as Wagner's Muse, Willhelmina Schröder-Devrient, the Comédie Français' "Mademoiselle Mars," Mme. Arnould-Plessey, and the actresses of the Russian serf theatre.
Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Romaunt of Margret; Drama of exile; Lady Geraldine; Vision of poets, and other poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joy Bounds
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750956968
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book A Song of their Own written by Joy Bounds and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did women from the Ipswich area have to do with getting the vote? Surely it was only in London that suffragettes chained themselves to railings, held enormous processions, went to prison, and burnt down buildings. But women were also making their voice heard in towns and villages across Britain. This book shows how much women in and around Ipswich were involved, right up to the outbreak of the First World War. In the face of great opposition, persistent heckling and even physical violence, these women held meetings, fairs and put on suffrage plays. Controversially, they shut themselves in to avoid the census and resisted tax. At a time when women had very little power inside or outside the home, it is the story of how ordinary women supported each other to demand a say in the affairs of this country.
Author : Margaret Ladd Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Case for Woman Suffrage written by Margaret Ladd Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Hayes Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198028059
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Women, Culture, and Community written by Elizabeth Hayes Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did middle- and upper-class southern women-black and white-advance from the private worlds of home and family into public life, eventually transforming the cultural and political landscape of their community? Using Galveston as a case study, Elizabeth Hayes Turner asks who where the women who became activists and eventually led to progressive reforms and the women sufferage movement. Turner discovers that a majority of them came from particular congregations, but class status had as much to do with reofrm as did religious motivation. The Hurricane of 1900, disfranchisement of black voters, and the creation of city commission government gave white women the leverage they needed to fight for a women's agenda for the city. Meanwhile, African American women, who were excluded from open civic association with whites, created their own organizations, implemented their own goals, and turned their energies to resisting and alleviating the numbing effects of racism. Separately white and black women created their own activist communities. Together, however, they changed the face of this New South city. Based on an exhaustive database of membership in community organizations compiled by the author from local archives, Women, Culture, and Community will appeal to students of race relations in the post-Reconstruction South, women's history, and religious history.
Author : Sheila Stowell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472082735
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (827 download)
Download or read book A Stage of Their Own written by Sheila Stowell and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jessica Ellen Sewell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816669732
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Women and the Everyday City written by Jessica Ellen Sewell and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender roles and American cities, she shows how changes in the city affected women's ability to negotiate shifting gender norms as well as how women's increasing use of the city played a critical role in the campaign for women's suffrage. Focusing on women's everyday use of streetcars, shops, restaurants, and theaters, Sewell reveals the impact of women on these public places-what women did there, which women went there, and how these places were changed in response to women's presence. Using the diaries of three women in San Francisco-Annie Haskell, Ella Lees Leigh, and Mary Eugenia Pierce, who wrote extensively on their everyday experiences-Sewell studies their accounts of day trips to the city and combines them with memoirs, newspapers, maps, photographs, and her own observations of the buildings that exist today to build a sense of life in San Francisco at this pivotal point in history. Working at the nexus of urban history, architectural history, and cultural geography, Women and the Everyday City offers a revealing portrait of both a major American city during its early years and the women who shaped it-and the country-for generations to come.
Author : Tetsuo Kishi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040129013
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 3 written by Tetsuo Kishi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, obituaries and other rare ephemera are drawn together to build a contemporary account of the acting achievements and personal lives of three inspiring figures from the late nineteenth-century theatre; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.
Author : Faith Binckes
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474450652
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s written by Faith Binckes and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on women's contributions to periodical culture in the era of modernismThis collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores women's role in shaping conversations about modernism and modernity across varied aesthetic and ideological registers, and foregrounds how such participation was shaped by a wide range of periodical genres. The essays focus on well-known publications and introduce those as yet obscure and understudied - including middlebrow and popular magazines, movement-based, radical papers, avant-garde titles and classic Little Magazines. Examining neglected figures and shining new light on familiar ones, the collection enriches our understanding of the role women played in the print culture of this transformative period.Key FeaturesHelps recover neglected women writers and cast new light on canonical onesHighlights the geographical diversity of modern British print cultureEmphasises the interdisciplinary nature of modernism, including essays on modernist dance, music, cinema, drama and architecture Includes a section on social movement periodicals
