Elizabeth Robins : staging a life, 1862-1952 / Angela V. John.

By:

John, Angela V

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0203316355
9780203316351
0203413199
9780203413197
9780415061124
0415061121
1134926847
9781134926848
1280046686
9781280046681
9781134926794
1134926790
9781134926831
1134926839
9786610046683
6610046689

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Elizabeth Robins.DDC classification:

813/.4 B 20

LOC classification:

PS2719.R4 Z73 1995eb

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Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; WHITHER HOW?; THE OPEN QUESTION; IBSEN THE ACTRESS; THEATRE AND FRIENDSHIP; COME AND FIND ME; THE MAGNETIC NORTH; THE CONVERT; WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO?; ANCILLA'S SHARE; TIME IS WHISPERING; Appendices; Elizabeth Robins's major publications; Elizabeth Robins's writings on women's suffrage; Notes; Index

Summary: 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 life and work of this vivid and transatlantic figure born during the American Civil War yet surviving into the England of the 1950s, Angela John raises questions about the shaping of historical identiti.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-275) and index.

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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 life and work of this vivid and transatlantic figure born during the American Civil War yet surviving into the England of the 1950s, Angela John raises questions about the shaping of historical identiti.

English.

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