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Women and playwriting in nineteenth-century Britain /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Davis, Tracy C., 1960-, Donkin, Ellen, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
English drama > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English drama > 19th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • The sociable playwright and representative citizen / Tracy C. Davis
  • "To be public as a genius and private as a woman" / Gay Gibson Cima
  • Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat / Ellen Donkin
  • Jane Scott the writer-manager / Jacky Bratton
  • Illusions of authorship / Jane Moody
  • Sarah Lane / Jim Davis
  • Staging the state / Beth H. Friedman-Romell
  • The "lady playwrights" and the "wild tribes of the East" / Heidi J. Holder
  • "From a female pen" / Katherine Newey
  • Genre trouble / Susan Bennett
  • Sappho in the closet / Denise A. Walen
  • Conflicted politics and circumspect comedy / Susan Carlson.