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1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations |
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Women, theatre and performance |
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Women, theatre and performance.
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| Summary |
With the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool for New York. She left a dramatic and colourful life behind: a hectic and fascinating 20-year career as a performer crisscrossing Britain first as a singer, dancer and actress on the musical comedy and pantomime stage, and then in music hall as a 'refined comedienne'. She campaigned against the sexual abuses rife in the theatre of the day which led her eventually into the suffragette movement where she became a 'notorious' militant, responsible for numerous acts of arson. She was imprisoned, went on hunger-strike, and was force-fed more than 300-times. In America, she became a celebrated 'foot-soldier' in Margaret Sanger's birth control movement. Her autobiography, written in the 1930s is published here for the first time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-282) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Marion, Kitty.
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| SUBJECT |
Marion, Kitty
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Marion, Kitty fast |
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Actresses -- Germany -- Biography
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Suffragists -- Germany -- Biography
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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Actresses
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Suffragists
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gardner, Vivien, editor.
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Atkinson, Diane, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781526138057 |
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1526138050 |
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9781526138064 |
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1526138069 |
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