02962nam 2200697Ia 450 991082130610332120200520144314.01-134-92683-91-134-92684-71-280-04668-60-203-41319-90-203-31635-510.4324/9780203413197 (CKB)111056485513066(EBL)178521(OCoLC)437080517(SSID)ssj0000145500(PQKBManifestationID)11165440(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000145500(PQKBWorkID)10156301(PQKB)11290691(MiAaPQ)EBC178521(Au-PeEL)EBL178521(CaPaEBR)ebr10058235(CaONFJC)MIL4668(OCoLC)52074717(EXLCZ)9911105648551306619940602d1995 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrElizabeth Robins staging a life, 1862-1952 /Angela V. John1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19951 online resource (306 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-06112-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-275) and index.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; IndexA 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 identitiyWomen novelists, American19th centuryBiographyActressesUnited StatesBiographyActressesEnglandBiographyFeministsUnited StatesBiographyWomen novelists, AmericanActressesActressesFeminists813.4B813/.4 B818.5209John Angela V168671MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821306103321Elizabeth Robins4069150UNINA