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Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain is the first book to make a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theatre from 1820 to 1918. It looks at how women playwrights negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers, and examines the female tradition of pl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newey, Katherine (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Cultural and Media Studies.
British and Irish Literature.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Theatre History.
British literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Literature.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
Theater > History.
Electronic books.
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Summary:Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain is the first book to make a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theatre from 1820 to 1918. It looks at how women playwrights negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers, and examines the female tradition of playwriting which dramatises the central experience of women's lives around the themes of home, the nation, and the position of women in marriage and the family. The book also includes an extensive Appendix of authors and plays, which will be a useful reference tool for students and scholars in nineteenth-century studies and theatre historians.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 269 pages)
ISBN:9780230554900
DOI:10.1057/9780230554900