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983713
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b738083
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| Main Entry
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John, Angela V.
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| Title & Author
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Elizabeth Robins : : staging a life, 1862-1952 /\ Angela V. John.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1995.
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1 online resource (xiv, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0203316355
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: 0203413199
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: 0415061121
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: 1280046686
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: 6610046689
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: 9780203316351
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: 9780203413197
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: 9780415061124
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: 9781134926794
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: 9781134926831
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: 9781134926848
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: 9781280046681
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: 9786610046683
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0415061121
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-275) and index.
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| Contents
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; WHITHER HOW?; THE OPEN QUESTION; IBSEN THE ACTRESS; THEATRE AND FRIENDSHIP; COME AND FIND ME; THE MAGNETIC NORTH; THE CONVERT; WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO?; ANCILLA'S SHARE; TIME IS WHISPERING; Appendices; Elizabeth Robins's major publications; Elizabeth Robins's writings on women's suffrage; Notes; Index
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A woman of extraordinary energy, talent and versatility. Elizabeth Robins was an actress who popularised Ibsen on the British stage, a prolific and popular writer of novels and non-fiction, and an Edwardian suffragette. Her extensive circle of friends included Florence Bell, Henry James, John Masefield and William Archer. She worked with the Pankhursts and knew the Woolfs. Through examining the life and work of this vivid and transatlantic figure born during the American Civil War yet surviving into the England of the 1950s, Angela John raises questions about the shaping of historical identiti.
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Robins, Elizabeth,1862-1952.
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Robins, Elizabeth,1862-1952
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Actors-- Great Britain, Biography.
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Actors-- United States, Biography.
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Feminists-- United States, Biography.
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Novelists, American-- 19th century, Biography.
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Actors.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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Feminists.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Novelists, American.
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Great Britain.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.4B
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| LC Classification
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PS2719.R4Z73 1995eb
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