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Author: Angela V John
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2007-03-15
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0752496468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeautiful and talented, versatile and charismatic, Elizabeth Robins was one of the foremost actresses of her day. Yet, this enduring character was also an active and lifelong feminist. This biography examines Elizabeth's historical identity and provides a study of the social culture surrounding a woman who lived a life in the spotlight.
Author: Angela V John
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2007-03-15
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0752496468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeautiful and talented, versatile and charismatic, Elizabeth Robins was one of the foremost actresses of her day. Yet, this enduring character was also an active and lifelong feminist. This biography examines Elizabeth's historical identity and provides a study of the social culture surrounding a woman who lived a life in the spotlight.
Author: Angela V. John
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780203721438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoanne E. Gates presents information about American novelist, feminist, and actress Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952). Gates includes a chronology and listings of the novels, nonfiction, and short stories of Robins, as well as access to reference works.
Author: Elizabeth Robins
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2023-10-21
Total Pages: 101
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVotes for Women by Elizabeth Robins is a powerful play that delves into the suffragette movement. Set against the backdrop of societal upheaval, the play captures the passion, challenges, and determination of women fighting for their right to vote. Robins' compelling characters and poignant dialogues make this a must-watch for theater enthusiasts.
Author: Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Robins
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780912670836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Convert is about the British Suffrage movement, which the author knew well. Part witty and scathing commentary on the upper classes, part political rhetoric quoted directly from open-air meetings, and part muck-raking realism, it moves back and forth between the personal and the political until the two can no longer be distinguished. The Convert uses as its frame the political "conversion" of Vida Levering, a beautiful, upper middle-class woman. We follow Vida's growing discontent with "country weekend" society and her increasing awareness of the common lot of women. Forthright and direct, Elizabeth Robins discusses issues that must have been shocking in 1907: unwed motherhood, the effects of the inequality of women, and the essential disrespect that underlies chivalry. Reminiscent of Jane Austen and foreshadowing the work of Virginia Woolf, The Convert is a fascinating novel. It provides us with a sense of history and a feeling of pride in what women could and did accomplish. It is also disturbing because far too many of the issues are still relevant.
Author: Elizabeth Robins
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-15
Total Pages: 421
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Messenger is a tale from which is adapted suffragette Elizabeth Robins's famous play, Votes for Women! Robins's was the first play to bring the "street politics of women's suffrage to the stage." Votes for Women! led to a surge in suffrage theater. Excerpt: "After all, we aren't yet living in the millennium, Julian. What I'm afraid of is that someday you'll be wanting to carry these notions of yours beyond the bounds of what's reasonable." "You mean," said the other young man, with a flash in his dark eyes, "you mean you're afraid I may just chance to be honest in my 'notions,' as you call them, of a scheme of social justice."
Author: Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780252069208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of the culinary essays the author wrote for London's Pall Mall Gazette. It shows that a woman could practice cooking as an art, preparing a complete aesthetic experience that combined exquisite flavors with a beautiful table, a soothing room, and lively conversation.
Author: Julie Holledge
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2013-04-11
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1405525738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Edwardian actress, glamorous and privileged, was the sex symbol of her time. Yet her life was a paradox: off stage she could marry, divorce and take lovers with impugnity; on stage she had to play dutiful wives or daughters or 'scarlet women'. Thousands of these spirited women set out to change the conventional roles they played - and to change the world. Some of them were famous - Athene Seyler, Kitty Marion, Elizabeth Robins, Edy Craig, many others unknown. Managing their own companies, they put on hundreds of plays all over the country - many on taboo subjects such as divorce, sex, venereal disease, prostitution - by little known playwrights as well as established dramatists like Shaw, Ibsen, Barrie. They took the establishment theatre by storm; and they made their mark on the political stage too, forming the Actresses' Franchise League and joining the battle for the vote. Innocent Flowers tells the story of these astonishing women (and includes some of their plays). By tracing their lives and loves, Julie Holledge has rediscovered an inspiring period in the history of women and the theatre.
Author: Elizabeth Robins
Publisher:
Published: 1899
Total Pages: 332
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