Kitty Marion :: actor and activist /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Marion, Kitty (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Gardner, Vivien (HerausgeberIn), Atkinson, Diane (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019
Schriftenreihe:Women, theatre and performance.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-282)
ISBN:9781526138057
1526138050
9781526138064
1526138069

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