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Actresses as Working Women
Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture
Series: Gender in Performance
Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and...
Published June 26th 1991 by Routledge