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Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life

Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life

by Angela V . John (Author)

Synopsis

The story of a successful actress and writer of novels and non-fiction who became an Edwardian suffragette

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 312
 Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Published: 15 Mar 2007
ISBN 10: 0752440284
ISBN 13: 9780752440286

Media Reviews
Robin's life and John's account of it offers riches to historians of many interests.
- Albion
This is a well-written, comprehensive life of Elizabeth Robins, the American-born actress and novelist....For social history that links the United States and Britain, the stage and dominant literary circles, early to mid-twentieth-century politics, and the British suffrage movement, this book is required reading.
- American Historical Review
An absorbing and fascinating tale. I couldn't stop reading this compelling biography...Angela John has invented a new form--biography as social history. The reader is riveted.
-Jane Marcus, City College of New York
A stage actress in America and London, Robins retired from the theater at age 40 and dedicated her life to writing and the woman suffrage movement. Johns, an academic, resurrects Robin's rich life and work, which included 14 novels as well as books on feminism.
- Library Journal
A sympathetic portrait based on meticulous scholarship...this biography will be a rich resource for historians of women, of the theatre, of turn of the century European and American society and culture.
-Judith P. Zinsser, Miami University
Author Bio
Angela V. John is a historian and biographer. She was, for many years, Professor of History at the University of Greenwich and now lives in Pembrokeshire. Her other books include a biography (with Revel Guest) of the translator, businesswoman and collector, Lady Charlotte Guest and a life of the war correspondent Henry W. Nevinson. She is currently working on a biography of Nevinson's second wife, the writer and suffragette Evelyn Sharp.