Kitty Marion

Actor and activist
Herausgeber: Atkinson, Diane; Gardner, Viv

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the unpublished autobiography of Kitty Marion, an actress, music hall performer, suffragette arsonist and campaigner in the American birth control movement. Written in the 1930s, Marion's story of activism offers a unique insight into a lifetime dedicated to the improvement of women's lives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781526138040
• ISBN-10: 1526138042
• Artikelnr.: 54895880

Autorenporträt

Viv Gardner is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester, and is a theatre and performance historian, focusing on gender and sexuality at the fin de siècle Diane Atkinson is an independent scholar and author of three biographies and two illustrated two books on the suffragettes

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Acknowledgements The Editors List of abbreviations
Introduction The Autobiography 1. Germany 2. England 3. Militant Suffrage
4. War 5. 'Hail Columbia' 6. Birth Control 7. Peace Epilogue Appendix I:
Home Office Papers: Prison Reports Appendix II: Prison Letters Appendix
III: Home Office: Citizenship Reports Select Bibliography Index