1st Edition
Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life 1862-1952
312 Pages
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Routledge
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A woman of extraordinary energy, talent and versatility. Elizabeth Robins was an actress who popularised Ibsen on the British stage, a prolific and popular writer of novels and non-fiction, and an Edwardian suffragette. Her extensive circle of friends included Florence Bell, Henry James, John Masefield and William Archer. She worked with the Pankhursts and knew the Woolfs. Through examining the... Read more
INTRODUCTION Part I Bessie Robins 1 WHITHER & HOW? 2 THE OPEN QUESTION Part II Lisa of the blue eyes 3 IBSEN & THE ACTRESS 4 THEATRE AND FRIENDSHIP Part III C.E. Raimond and I 5 COME AND FIND ME 6 THE MAGNETIC NORTH Part IV Elizabeth Robins 7 THE CONVERT 8 WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO…? Part V From E.R. to Anonymous 9 ANCILLA’S SHARE 10 TIME IS WHISPERING
Biography
Prof Angela V John
This meticulously researche book places Robins firmly within her social and cultural context. By skilfully weaving the social history of time into the circumstances that Robins may have faced at any particular historical moment, John breaks away from the traditional literary account of a life and presents historical biography at its best.' - THES
`Nonetheless, John's meticulous scholarship and her perspicacious reading of the evidence goes some way towards revealing what Elizabeth Robins tantalizingly called `the real me.' I Theatre Resh Intl
