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Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain

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  • © 2005

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  1. Katherine Newey
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Framing the Victorian Woman Playwright

    • Katherine Newey
    Pages 1-9

  3. Rescuing the Stage

    • Katherine Newey
    Pages 10-38

  4. Legitimacy

    • Katherine Newey
    Pages 39-65

  5. Money

    • Katherine Newey
    Pages 66-109

  6. Art

    • Katherine Newey
    Pages 110-134

  7. Home and Nation

    • Katherine Newey
    Pages 135-168

  8. Conclusion: The Playwright as Woman of Letters

    • Katherine Newey
    Pages 169-189

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 190-269
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About this book

Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain is the first book to make a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theatre from 1820 to 1918. It looks at how women playwrights negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers, and examines the female tradition of playwriting which dramatises the central experience of women's lives around the themes of home, the nation, and the position of women in marriage and the family. The book also includes an extensive Appendix of authors and plays, which will be a useful reference tool for students and scholars in nineteenth-century studies and theatre historians.

About the author

KATHERINE NEWEY is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts in the Department of Drama at the University of Birmingham, UK.

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