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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 Masefi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-275) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203316355 9780203316351 0203413199 9780203413197 9780415061124 0415061121 1134926847 9781134926848 1280046686 9781280046681 9781134926794 1134926790 9781134926831 1134926839 9786610046683 6610046689 |