144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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The influence of the women’s movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women’s drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage campaign in the years before the First World War. Women’s Playwriting and the Women’s Movement, 1890 – 1918 is the first... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction
- The Female Playwright in the 1890s
- The New Woman on the Stage
- Ingénues, Wives, and Mothers: Women’s Drama in the West End
- The Orthodox Roots of Suffrage Theatre
- A New Heroine for a New Century: Women’s Drama and the Modernist Theatre
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Anna Farkas is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Regensburg University, Germany. She is co-editor of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2013). Her research interests are in British drama of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women’s writing, and law and literature.
