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Kitty Marion: Actor and Activist

Hardback

Main Details

Title Kitty Marion: Actor and Activist
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Viv Gardner
Edited by Diane Atkinson
SeriesWomen, Theatre and Performance
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:296
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreDrama
ISBN/Barcode 9781526138040
ClassificationsDewey:792.028092
Audience
General
Illustrations 15 black & white illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 28 February 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This is the npublished 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. -- .

Author Biography

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 siecle Diane Atkinson is an independent scholar and author of three biographies and two illustrated two books on the suffragettes -- .