1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911074455503321

Titolo

Importation of Africans. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of January 22, requesting information relative to the importation of Africans into the State of Georgia, or any other state of this Union. February 15, 1859. -- Read, ordered to be laid on the table and printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : [publisher not identified], , 1859

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 pages)

Collana

Ex. doc. / 35th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 89

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial set no. 1008]

Altri autori (Persone)

BuchananJames <1791-1868.>

Soggetti

Criminal investigation

Foreign trade promotion

Foreign trade and employment

Imports

Slave trade

Enslaved persons

Legislative materials.

Georgia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911104366603321

Autore

John Angela V

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

1-134-92683-9

1-134-92684-7

1-280-04668-6

0-203-41319-9

0-203-31635-5

9780203413197

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

813.4B

813/.4 B

818.5209

Soggetti

Women novelists, American - 19th century

Actresses - United States

Actresses - England

Feminists - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 1950's, Angela John raises questions about the shaping of historical identitiy