| ISBN |
0460877291 (pbk) : |
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9780460877299 (pbk) : |
| Description |
lxxxviii,478p. ; 20cm. |
| Content type |
text |
| Media type |
unmediated |
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volume |
| Series |
The Everyman library
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| Contents |
The Plays: The family legend / Joanna Baillie -- Smiles and tears / Marie-Thérèse De Camp -- Francis the First / Fanny Kemble -- Fashion / Anna Cora Mowatt -- East Lynne / Mrs Henry Wood (adapted by T. A. Palmer) -- Alan's wife / Florence Bell and Elizabeth Robins -- The ambassador / John Oliver Hobbes (Pearl Cragie). |
| Summary |
Charting the neglected contribution made by women to the development of the 19th-century stage and the development of the theatre of realism, these plays include work by the Scottish playwright Joanna Baille and the dramatization of Mrs Henry Wood's novel "East Lynne". |
| Subject |
English drama -- 19th century -- Women authors.
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Scottish drama -- 19th century -- Women authors.
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Women and literature -- Great Britainx19th century.
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| Alt Author |
Scullion, Adrienne.
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Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851
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Kemble, Marie Thérèse, 1774-1838
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Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893
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Mowatt, Anna Cora, 1819-1870
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Wood, Henry Mrs., 1814-1887
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Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady, 1851-1930
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Robins, Elizabeth, 1862-1952
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Hobbes, John Oliver, 1867-1906
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