Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life: 1862-1952
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 identities.
Situating Elizabeth Robins's achievement in the context of the British and American cultural history of the period, this is a book which will attract historians, teachers and students of theatre studies and all those fascinated by biography.
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Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life: 1862-1952
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 identities.
Situating Elizabeth Robins's achievement in the context of the British and American cultural history of the period, this is a book which will attract historians, teachers and students of theatre studies and all those fascinated by biography.
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Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life: 1862-1952

Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life: 1862-1952

Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life: 1862-1952

Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life: 1862-1952

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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 identities.
Situating Elizabeth Robins's achievement in the context of the British and American cultural history of the period, this is a book which will attract historians, teachers and students of theatre studies and all those fascinated by biography.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134926831
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/01/2002
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 312
File size: 2 MB

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Prof Angela V John

Table of Contents

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
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