Women's theatre writing in Victorian Britain [electronic resource] / Katherine Newey.

Hundreds of women writers wrote for the British stage in the nineteenth-century, but their works have become invisible in the history of the theatre. In this first full-length study of Victorian women playwrights in Britain, Katherine Newey uncovers these invisible women playwrights, to find an ener...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Newey, Katherine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Framing the Victorian Woman Playwright
  • Rescuing the Stage
  • Legitimacy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Home and Nation
  • Conclusion: The Playwright as a Woman of Letters
  • Appendix: Nineteenth-Century British Women Playwrights: A Checklist.