Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad: A Transnational History of Stage and Screen Actresses

Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, this book tells the story of the Canadian women who forged careers as professional actresses from the 1870s to the 1940s. Appearing in Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, they were integral in theatrical networks and h...

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1. Verfasser: Morgan, Cecilia (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press 2022
Ausgabe:1st ed.
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Zusammenfassung:Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, this book tells the story of the Canadian women who forged careers as professional actresses from the 1870s to the 1940s. Appearing in Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, they were integral in theatrical networks and helped shape transnational middle-class culture.
Cover -- SWEET CANADIAN GIRLS ABROAD -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Actresses? The Personal and the Professional -- CHAPTER One Becoming an Actress: Childhood, Family, and the Stage -- CHAPTER TWO Working Lives -- CHAPTER THREE The Plays -- CHAPTER FOUR Celebrity -- CHAPTER FIVE Citizenship -- CHAPTER SIX The Interwar Decades: Retaining Old Patterns, Facing New Challenges -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Modern - and Transnational - Sweet Canadian Girl Onstage in London ...and New York ... and Sydney ... and Auckland -- Epilogue -- Dramatis Personae -- Figures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Beschreibung:XI, 424 Seiten
ISBN:9780228013273

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