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Author Gabin, Jane S., 1950-

Title American women in Gilded Age London : expatriates rediscovered / Jane S. Gabin
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 195 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents The American woman arrives -- Jennie Jerome Churchill, extraordinary expatriate -- The "uncrowned queen of Americans in London" -- The socialite-authors -- American women on the British stage -- Mary Anderson and the Americans of Broadway -- Sketches of studio life: Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Julie Helen Heyneman -- Elizabeth Banks, crusading journalist / Suffrage andn suffering: the American woman responds
Summary An illuminating study of American women--active in politics and the arts--who lived and worked in England in times of adventure and trauma
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Americans -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
Women -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Americans
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Women
Amerikanerin
Eheschließung
Oberschicht
SUBJECT London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078225
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078217
Subject England -- London
London
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813039909
0813039908