Kitty Marion (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool for New York. She left a dramatic and colourful life behind: a hectic and fascinating 20-year career as a performer crisscrossing Britain first as a singer, dancer and actress on the musical comedy and pantomime stage, and then in music hall as a 'refined comedienne'. She campaigned against the sexual abuses rife in the theatre of the day which led her eventually into the suffragette movement where she became a 'notorious' militant, responsible for numerous acts of arson. She was imprisoned, went on hunger-strike, and was force-fed more than 300-times. In America, she became a celebrated 'foot-soldier' in Margaret Sanger's birth control movement. Her autobiography, written in the 1930s is published here for the first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526138064
• Artikelnr.: 56918705

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